I have actually thought to myself: I wonder what Sarah Silverman would say about her menopause?
It’s great for all of us when celebrities talk about menopause, because of course it normalizes it and creates awareness and just generally makes us all feel like we are in this together. But I love it even more when it’s just purely conversation and not a calculated career move.
So much of the celebrity universe we live in is tightly controlled and calculated that it’s refreshing to see a woman just lay it bare. And with the most famous, there’s almost always some sort of commercially related end game. That’s why if Jennifer Lopez ever talks about her experiences, you can be almost certain a product line will follow.
Then there are those celebrity interviews that talk a lot about the dark side, but somehow when they are shared on social media, are overly simplified and feed the medicalization and mania on the topic. For example when British comedian Kathy Burke’s talked about being suicida…
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