This one menopause side-effect no one talks about meant I had to throw out half my wardrobe... and no, I didn't go up a dress size!

As I drop another item on to the bedroom floor, my daughter, Sophie, fixes me with a quizzical look. It's not the only outfit to be jettisoned during this ruthless cull — from the royal blue Max Mara dress, accessorised with a gilt star-shaped belt, that I wore to a family wedding, to a yellow button-down frock sprigged with white roses and which, though only a few years old, would still see me through plenty of summer parties. It's even time to say goodbye to Diane von Furstenberg — namely, a navy checked DVF shirt dress — despite the fact it was a gift from my husband Martin. You see, in the past five years, my bra size has increased from a neat C cup to a rather unwelcome E, even though my hips and waist have remained unchanged. Over the past five years, Angela Epstein says her bra size has increased from a C cup to an E, even though her hips and waist have remained unchanged Angela before she went through the menopause and got her 'mid-life' chest Angela poses in a pink dress while on holiday in the Greek countryside If that's not challenging enough, bigger midlife busts are more prone to sagging as the skin loses elasticity and sag-preventing collagen rapidly diminishes.