Halle Berry Didn’t Know She Was in Perimenopause for 10 Years. Now, Her Life Mission Is to Help Women Through It

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, 22 years later?) But at age 58, she’s here to tell you that even .In Berry’s case, she wasn’t even aware of it—suffering through like sudden sweats, headaches, and memory loss for years before finally learning the reason why, at 54.“When I found out that I was in peri and that none of my doctors had even mentioned this time of life to me, it just got me on fire to get all the information I could about myself, for myself,” Berry tells Glamour.The actor rose to fame playing fashion-obsessed waitress Caroline Channing on 2 Broke Girls, and now stars as Gemma Johnson on the long-running CBS sitcom The Neighborhood.The more she learned about menopause, the more passionate she felt about the topic—eventually launching Respin, a health and wellness platform serving women throughout their menopause experience. ( will launch in January 2025.)“I realized if I knew so little [about menopause], I'm sure so many other women have the same little information,” she says.Since then, Berry has lobbied for the bipartisan and appears alongside four medical experts in the first-ever women’s health class on MasterClass, streaming now.Ahead, Berry talks to Glamour about what prompted her second act, , and how just how great it felt getting to wear that iconic Oscars dress again.Glamour: In “The Magic of Menopause,” you admit you didn’t think about menopause until you were well into perimenopause.

What were you feeling?Halle Berry: I was probably 10 years into it and had no clue. I thought I was going crazy. I had really bad memory loss.

I had a hard time concentrating, I flooded my laundry room three times, and I would leave my keys stuck in doorways. I could never find my phone.