In video, Naomi Watts lists all the positive aspects of menopause

Should we focus instead on hot flashes, vaginal dryness and mood swings caused by menopause?

Or on its positive aspects, which are hardly ever mentioned?

“No more periods”, “no more premenstrual syndrome”, “going to bed at 9:30 p.m. without being ashamed of it”: for Naomi Watts, it is on this second option that everyone should pay attention.

Because this period of life, often still taboo, can also offer indisputable advantages, she recalls, not without a slight touch of irony, the 53-year-old actress.

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Inviting her community of fans to do the same, the Australian-British actress challenges them to list the positive aspects of menopause in a video posted on Instagram, on which she can be seen chaining suggestive pouts on the notes of

by Aretha Franklin, while listing the benefits associated with the natural end of the menstrual cycle.

If most women experience symptoms of physical and psychological discomfort when they enter this phase (generally between 45 and 55 years old), menopause can also be an opportunity to feel more serene, as the actress recalls. , which also evokes the advantages of the experience, and a better relationship with one's body.

It's actually a real fight that Naomi Watts has been leading for some time: to overcome the stigmatization of postmenopausal women.

"Getting older is a privilege," she said last June in an Instagram post, in which she said she had suffered from premature menopause.

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The star has indeed founded Stripes, a beauty and well-being line dedicated to skin and body changes during this period of women's lives.

The official launch is scheduled for the next few days, possibly for World Menopause Day, October 18.