When she started speaking out about “the change,” Naomi Watts was worried about branding herself as a “menopausal lady” in Hollywood.

“Agism is alive and well. I was nervous about it, but I thought: If I can help a few, that would be meaningful. And it turns out it wasn’t career suicide,” she said at an event at Credo Beauty in Manhattan on Tuesday.

At 56, her acting career is still thriving — but she’s also got a whole personal care company, Stripes Beauty , that she says address menopause issues “from scalp to vag.” 5

Watts started going through menopause earlier than most. This was 20 years ago — long before it had been rebranded as “ cougar puberty ,” and even before the term “perimenopause” was widely ised.

“At 36, I was trying to start a family and I wasn’t getting pre

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