"At 36, Naomi Watts had never heard of "perimenopause" - even after she was diagnosed with it. "That word was never mentioned to me - that nice, softer word that is around a lot today," Watts, now 57, told Business Insider at Meno Café, a weekend-long pop-up event in New York hosted by Stripes, Watts' menopause-focused beauty and sexual wellness brand."
"Since then, Watts has taken a lead role in advancing conversations around menopause, which is when a woman hasn't had her period in 12 consecutive months, usually between the ages of 45 and 55. In 2022, she founded Stripes, and earlier this year, she published "Dare I Say It," her tell-all memoir about navigating perimenopause symptoms, including infertility when trying to conceive her two children."
"Watts had just wrapped filming "King Kong" in 2005 and had planned on starting a family when she learned she was approaching menopause. "That kind of news knocked me sideways," Watts told Business Insider after the panel discussion. While she said her real focus at the time was trying to get pregnant with her then-partner Liev Schreiber, whom she split with in 2016 after having two kids, menopause symptoms were "disruptive" to her career, too."
Naomi Watts received a perimenopause diagnosis at 36 and had not known the term then. The diagnosis coincided with plans to start a family after filming King Kong in 2005 and contributed to infertility challenges while trying to conceive two children with then-partner Liev Schreiber. Perimenopause symptoms produced brain fog that made remembering lines and work more difficult, and feelings of loneliness, fear, and shame followed in the absence of a visible community. Watts later founded Stripes in 2022, launched a menopause-focused brand, published the memoir "Dare I Say It," and helped create public forums such as Meno Café to advance conversations about menopause.
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