Drew Barrymore is making it her mission to erase the stigmas around menopause. In a recent conversation, via People, the 48-year-old talk show host opened up about her own perimenopause experience and revealed she’s ready to “rebrand” menopause to eliminate the negative connotations attached to it. Keep reading to find out more… Following her now viral moment of experiencing a hot flash on her talk show where Jennifer Aniston was a guest, Drew sat down with Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, Dr.
Sharone Malone, Dr. Heather Hirsch and Dr. Judith Joseph, to talk about the stigmas surrounding the natural occurrence. “There’s something in that stigma that I don’t want you to think I’m some dusty, old, dry thing.
That’s not the image I want,” she shared. “I feel very confident, normally, and I want to be who I am and present myself. But in that moment I thought, I have to tell this story because it was a real life experience of, I’m so proud to be here.” Drew added, “I’m an open book.
But in that one moment, I was like, ‘I don’t want to say what it is, because I’m engaging in someone who I want to see me a certain way.’” She also noted and opened up a conversation about how menopause could go through a “rebrand” in society. “If Mark Zuckerberg could rebrand Facebook to Meta, maybe we can do this for menopause,” she says. “Because, we’ve got the word men-o-pause.
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