Naomi Watts dares to say it

Lainey
There was a time, not too long ago, when women would try to talk to the media about menopause and nobody would pick up the phone, answer the email, check their DMs, whatever. This is why there’s been so much confusion and fear, and also shame and embarrassment, about a natural process that women go through. This is also why there’s very little research, relative to other health issues, on menopause.

Where I live in Toronto, the Sinai Health Foundation launched the Hot and Bothered campaign last fall to end the stigma and close the gap in women’s health. The campaign’s goal is to “create the Centre for Mature Women’s Health at Mount Sinai Hospital”, aiming to become the “most comprehensive centre of its kind in the world [to ensure that] more women than ever before are heard and cared for, through all of life’s stages”. This is a program prioritising “mature women’s health” after centuries of society disappearing women after a certain age.

So to go back to conversations around menopause and how much play this gets in the media, it’s been great to see Naomi Watts the last couple of weeks with all kinds of air time on talk shows etc as she’s promoting her book, Dare I Say It which is specifically about her menopause experience. Like I said, up until recently, when an actress was on a press tour, if it wasn’t about a movie or a TV show or a brand deal, it was also never about menopause.