“I’m so tired of seeing products for anti-aging. I’m pro-aging,” says Silke Ahlden, a 55-year-old fashion stylist based in Dubai. “It’s not always so easy. It’s difficult to see your body change in a way that you’re not prepared for. But as women, especially with pregnancy, we go through these transitions more often than men and we just need to embrace it. We need to be a little bit more courageous about it and say, ‘That doesn’t define me. My body isn’t who I am.’”