Halle Berry Is Working to Break the Stigma on Something That Happens During Women’s ‘Best Years'
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We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it a million times until our voices are hoarse from screaming: Society needs to talk about menopause, and no one agrees with that more than Halle Berry. Recently, the Oscar-winning actress spoke to Capitol Hill about menopause legislation, and per Politico, many of the staffers said it was the first time they ever discussed the issue in the monument.
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Rep. Yvette Clarke and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester have both introduced bills, with Clarke’s bill made to require the National Institutes of Health to focus on menopause, and Rochester’s to focus on funding “a national menopause awareness campaign,” all of which Berry is over the moon about. Berry is currently working with them and other representatives to get these bills going, and for the conversation about menopause to continue.
And in her journey, the Moonfall actress also sat down to talk with Cory Booker about this issue, posting three separate videos. The first video was posted with the caption reading, “Menopause … Let’s talk about it! 9 in 10 women were never educated about menopause. Which is why @corybooker and I dove into the importance of talking about women’s pre-menopausal and menopausal journeys so that we can find more relief in the similarities of women’s inevitable unknown.”
“Every woman, if you live long enough, will go through menopause. And most women spend the longest period of their life in their pre-menopausal or menopausal years, like three decades,” Berry started, in the video. “..I’ve gotten involved to try to de-stigmatize it, to let us understand that when we reach this time in our life, these are our best years. So to think that we should pack it up or we should not pay attention to all of the things that are going on with our body, I think is a, is a real problem. And that’s what most women do.”
The Gothika star talked about how her friends rejoiced when she brought up the topic of menopause, saying how “they were starving to talk with someone about it and not feel shame. And they were starved to share their experiences. And we realized we’re going through a lot of the same things.”
We’re so happy Berry is working with political officials to get the needle moving, and get people talking about menopause. And we truly can’t wait to see what she accomplishes!
(Psst: You can watch the full interview below!)
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