Donna Francis: Quitting Drinking, Mum Wine Culture + Throwing Up at Claridge's

Beauty editor Donna Francis spent 30 years drinking white wine through her career, motherhood and perimenopause before quitting drinking last July. In this episode of One for the Road, she tells Sober Dave the story most mum-wine-culture women never say out loud.

Donna grew up in an Islington family where pub culture was love, where pouring someone a drink was how you showed up. She married young, built an award-winning beauty editor career, raised her son, moved to Florida, and slowly noticed the white wine was no longer optional. There was the night she threw a tuna steak at her husband. The 40th birthday she ended throwing up in the lobby of Claridge's. The pool lilo she fell asleep on at a family pub party at 47.

Donna talks perimenopause and alcohol, gray area drinking, hidden family trauma, and what quitting drinking actually feels like when wine has been your love language.

Sober journey, beauty industry, mum wine culture, perimenopause sobriety.

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