Naomi Watts delivers a liberating speech

Its objective is simple: put an end to this unexplained shame. The actress Naomi Watts, now 53 years old, recently confided without taboo on her menopause. But before being able to talk about it openly, the Australian actress was afraid of it. Until the day she wondered why menopause was a taboo for so many women. Very discreet about her private life, Naomi Watts decided to speak on social networks to tell her own story. It must be said that very few celebrities talk about this subject openly. Before her, actress Angelina Jolie had shared her experience. The ex of Brad Pitt experienced menopause at 40, following the removal of the ovaries in 2013, in order to prevent any risk of cancer. A new stage in his life the American actress welcomed with open arms. “Today, I feel older, and I feel good like that. I am happy to have grown up. I don’t want to be young anymore” she confided. A mother of two boys, Naomi Watts was younger than average when menopause came knocking on her door.

Menopause without taboo: “I was not prepared”

Followed by 1.5 M subscribers on Instagram, the Australian actress confides that she has experienced menopause when she was in her late thirties. “Then the M-word quickly jostled me. It was like colliding head-on with a truck. How could I understand something about it when no one was talking about it? can we read on the social network. Arrived at menopause earlier than expected, Naomi Watts says the loneliness she had to face. “Even the doctors had little to say” she explains. “It’s strangely like an unspoken code of silence: women should suffer in silence and cash in, because that’s what past generations have done” adds the actress who regrets not having had someone to talk to about it. “It happened to me way too soon and I was unprepared” she told Page Six magazine. Before adding: “I knew in the back of my mind that my mum went through early menopause, but I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t know you could be in perimenopause for eight years. I felt very isolated”. Naomi Watts also regrets the media treatment of menopause. “We have been underserved in media, storytelling and marketing for far too long” denounces the actress. Before concluding that “aging is a privilege”.