Naomi Watts delivers an overwhelming testimony on early menopause: “The end of everything”

Naomi Watts and his ex-companion, Liev Schreiber, had two children: a boy named Alexander and nicknamed Sasha (17), and a girl called Kai (16). Designing them was more complicated than expected, because the actress of Mulholland Drive experienced an early menopause at the age of 36. If menopause is a taboo subject as a rule, its early form is even more. But, for her, there is no question that there is so. So she decided to talk about it without filter in a book, Dare I Say Itreleased on January 21, 2025.

Naomi Watts returns to the shock linked to his early menopause

Menstructed people are very little prepared for the arrival of menopause, because the subject is very rarely mentioned, both in society and during life science lessons or sex education, or by doctors. And early menopause is even less discussed, so that Naomi Watts explains in the Instagram post where she announced the future publication of her book, in August 2024, that she has long struggled with “Shame and secret”. She says she also had to face the absence of “True resources” and “well informed doctors”.

“Writing a book was never something that I imagined being able to do. When I learned that I was on the verge of menopause, at the age of 36, I felt so alone. Today. Hui, I am grateful to have found a community of people who supported me, made me laugh in difficult times and helped me feel myself “says Naomi Watts on Instagram this January 21. She adds that she hopes that this work will be able to help women who also cross an early menopause. “I remained silent as long as I have been able to. But knowing that half of the population will be menopausal and that two of my grandmothers still live and are doing well, I was determined to find out more and optimize my Health – as well as to bring women together to feel that they are not alone in this situation.she said in August.

Naomi Watts' journey to have children despite early menopause

When Naomi Watts learned that she was about to be menopausal, in the middle of the thirties, it was devastating. “Just when I was ready to start a family! I thought it was the end of everything. And certainly my fertility and my career”she says on Instagram, adding to Page Six : “It happened far too early for me and I was not prepared. It was a shock and no one is preparing for you.”

The British actress had to have recourse to medical assistance to procreation (AMP) to get pregnant. “I wanted at all costs to get pregnant as quickly as possible. Because of my hormone levels, I was not a candidate for IVF. But I tried treatments like Clomid [un médicament inducteur de l’ovulation, ndlr] and procedures such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) “says Naomi Watts in his book. Like many people facing infertility, she was desperate. “I would have eaten my dog's nails if someone had told me it could help me”she says. The actress experienced a spontaneous pregnancy stop before giving birth to her children.