Halle Berry has opened up about mistaking a health scare with her changing hormones.
The Oscar winning actress spoke candidly about her experience with perimenopause during a women's health discussion alongside a panel of other A-listers.
"First of all, my ego told me that I was going to skip it – I'm very safe, I'm healthy, I managed to get myself off of insulin and manage my diabetes since I'm 20 years old," Berry told the Unreasonable Conversation summit in Los Angeles overnight.
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Yet, the Monster's Ball star said it was when she finally met "the man of her dreams", partner Van Hunt, at 54, she noticed a change. She experienced extreme pain after sex.
After being told by her doctor that she had a severe case of the herpes, Berry and Hunt both took a test and did not in fact have the sexually transmitted disease.
Rather, she had a symptom of perimenopause.
"My doctor had no knowledge and didn't prepare me, that's when I knew, 'Oh my gosh, I've got to use my platform, I have to use all of who I am and I have to start making a change and a difference for other women,'" Berry said.
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Over the years, the now 57-year-old, has been a menopause awareness advocate. She told the summit it is her aim to change attitudes towards the hormonal shift.
"Changing the way women and men feel about women during their midlife and how they feel about this – which used to be a dirty little word – menopause, perimenopause, and we in this room have to change that… it can't just be the doom and gloom story. This is a glorious time of life," she said.
Other speakers at the summit included US first lady Jill Biden, Kerry Washington, Jane Fonda and Paris Hilton.
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Hunt and Berry made their relationship official in 2020, but started seeing each other months before, reports People.
Before the mother-of-two found love with Hunt, Berry was married to French actor Olivier Martinez. The couple share a son, Maceo. The pair split in 2015.
She has a daughter, Nahla, from a previous relationship with Gabriel Aubry.
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