A night of great intimacy was followed by a painful morning in which Academy Award–winning actress Halle Berry felt like she was being attacked by razor blades. She took a trip to the doctor, who told her she had “the worst case of herpes he had ever seen,” Berry recalled.
Turns out Berry, 54, was suffering the incredibly common symptoms of menopause after she had been in perimenopause—the transitional phase of a woman’s life that leads to the end of her cycle—for about 10 years and didn’t know it.
