Naomi Watts Started Menopause at 36, but Found a Deeper ‘Authenticity’ Because of It
glamour.comquietly tied the knot earlier this year) at the age when most women experience The Change, Watts is speaking out about her experience."Going through menopause at such a young age was not easy, especially during a time when there was so little information available about it,” she revealed in an interview with British paper "Mood swings, night sweats, and migraines…I was feeling like I was spiraling out of control."This content can also be viewed on the site it from."I truly believe that if menopause hadn’t been such an off-limits topic when I first started experiencing symptoms, I would’ve had an easier transition," she said, adding that had to find her own answers for questions about what she was experiencing.
But ultimately, she also found a better sense of self. “Going through this journey led me to a deeper understanding of myself, and I came out on the other side feeling more authentically me,” she continued. "A lot of freedom came in the self-acknowledgement.
I had those voices in the back of my mind reminding me how old women are let out to pasture, but there was a lure to this desire to be authentic, to crawl from behind the invisible wall and just acknowledge for myself something that everyone could have probably guessed." She's now partnered with the non-profit Menopause Mandate to help women in a similar position."The most valuable move for any relationship, partnership, workplace or family, is to just be open and honest about what you’re going through.
Most times this gives people a chance to be empathetic and know how to respond. And plus hiding is so much more exhausting."Watts also opened up about the still-kinda-taboo topic of aging…in Hollywood (!).
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