
In recent years, two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts has been candid about her experience with menopause. In her new book, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause, Watts reveals that she was "warned" to never publicly reveal her early menopause as it would damage her acting career.
"I'd been warned ever since I started acting that calling attention to your age—when that age was not 23 or younger—would be career suicide," Watts wrote in her new book, an excerpt from which was published by The Sunday Times. "I was told I would never work again if I admitted to being menopausal, or even perimenopausal. Hollywood's lovely term for such women was 'unf--kable.'"