AUGUST 2025
Stacy London Gets Real About Dating Women, Midlife Reinvention, and Living with Chronic Illness
In a new interview with Flow Space, the style icon shares how she’s embracing life at 56 with honesty, humor, and self-discovery.
Written by: Galina Espinoza | Photography by: Bertram Knight
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In a candid new interview with Flow Space, Stacy London — OG reality-TV style icon (What Not to Wear, now Prime Video’s Wear Whatever the F You Want with Clinton Kelly) —discusses dating women in midlife, embracing self-discovery, and living with psoriatic arthritis. She opens up about the face-framing white streak that first appeared when she was 11, the everyday challenges of her autoimmune diseases, and the lessons she’s learned from navigating them. London also talks about her interest in becoming an end-of-life doula, shining a light on topics people often avoid, and reflects on her working relationship with Clinton Kelly, emphasizing that there’s no shortcut when it comes to doing the hard work in life and relationships.
Key Quotes & Highlights:
On midlife disruption and dating women: “I started dating women!,” London laughs. “I’m not gonna lie: It was a little bit of a surprise. But that’s actually much more common in midlife women than you would think. Maybe it’s because [some of us] start to find men intolerable!”
On her signature white streak: London suspects that some of the treatments she endured to control flare-ups, including light therapy and cold tar therapy, are responsible for her now-signature, face-framing white streak, which first appeared when she was only 11. “It started off as three strands, okay? And it just got bigger and bigger and bigger.”
On life with psoriatic arthritis: “I've had slight limitations my whole life because of autoimmune diseases. Meeting people for drinks and then going to dinner and then going to see a movie? That's too much for me,” London reveals, adding that she spent years chastising herself for falling into the Gen X slacker stereotype. “I was so hard on myself about not being able to do everything, or about taking a boxing class and feeling like I was going to, you know, have the flu afterwards [because] I was so achy.”
On wanting to become an end-of-life doula: “When I talk about it, it makes people uncomfortable,” London admits. “It’s the same thing as when I started talking about menopause—people would freak out! They were like, ‘You’re using scare tactics.’ And I was like, ‘No. I’m using prepare tactics.’ Because the more you talk about it, all those monsters under the bed become dust bunnies, right? You just have to shine a light on the things that feel scary.”
On the Clinton Kelly rift: “And it wasn't until, you know, Clinton said, ‘I really want to talk to you about this [new] show,’ that I was like, ‘Why do you even want to talk to me at all?’” London says. “That's when we had sort of the knockdown, drag out conversation of where we both went wrong. What I've learned in my life is that you have to do the work—there's kind of no sidestepping it.”
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