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| | Gillian Anderson on perimenopause: 'I felt like somebody had taken over my brain' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For all you can say about Lena Dunham, and there’s a lot, she’s doing good work with the Lenny newsletter, perhaps by passing it off to other people. In this week’s edition Gillian Anderson, 48, talks to her best friend, a journalist named Jennifer Nadel, about menopause and perimenopause. Anderson and Nadal have a new book out today called We: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere. Just reading this brief interview makes me want to buy it. The two friends talk candidly about medical and mental health challenges as they went through menopause and I have to say this is one of the few times in the many years I’ve been writing about celebrities that I’ve heard The Change discussed so candidly.
The first time she remembers experiencing perimenopause
Anderson: Two years ago it was eight in the morning and I remember throwing my coat down on the floor in front of at least two of my children, and saying out loud, ?This day sucks!? The day hadn?t even started, but there was something about my inability to handle anything that morning that alerted me to the fact that something was up. And as the day went on, I kept having to excuse myself from meetings and go into the bathroom to cry.
It was at the point that I felt like my life was falling apart around me that I started to ask what could be going on internally, and friends suggested it might be hormonal. I went to a menopause specialist who informed me that my levels of estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone were incredibly low.
Can you explain what perimenopause is?
Anderson: Perimenopause, as I understand it, is a period of time that can last anywhere from a few years to even a decade before one?s period actually stops, before one actually goes into menopause proper. What happens is, over time our levels of estrogen start to deplete, and as a result we develop symptoms like anxiety, depression, mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, and find it harder and harder to cope with the normal routines of our lives.
I was used to being able to balance a lot of things, and all of a sudden I felt like I could handle nothing. I felt completely overwhelmed. When I talked to the menopause specialist, she said that she often gets phone calls from female CEOs screaming down the phone, ?I need help now! I am losing my mind!?
And that?s completely right. I felt like somebody else had taken over my brain.
Nadal: It?s kind of weird. I talk to older women who have been through it, and they can barely remember the details. It?s a bit like childbirth. They?re like, ?Oh, yeah, I did that.? They can?t remember or give you the details, and yet when you?re in it, every single moment of it is so tricky. It?s not just the physical symptoms, the loss of memory, the loss of emotional perspective, or that feeling of having lost your emotional shock absorbers; it?s also a feeling of loss.
[From Lenny]
Right now I’m going through perimenopause and feel very sad, beyond anything I can remember feeling before, and unable to concentrate, just like Anderson describes. I’m alternately irritated and my periods are painful. I could relate to most of what Chrissy Teigen just wrote about postpartum depression (although of course that’s not the cause for me). So when Gillian Anderson talks about feeling emotionally raw in perimenopause and how hard that is to deal with it helps. I have an appointment with my doctor today and will ask her about options. Both my mom and my aunt went through this at my age but no one talked about it or warned me, I think they thought I might be spared. Hopefully the comparison to childbirth is apt because that’s something that seems so remote when you’re not dealing with it. Like “holy sh-t, I can’t believe I got through that” but you push it out of your mind. I’m looking forward to that phase the most.
Photos credit: WENN and Fame
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| | Did Marion Cotillard get lip injections or does she just have 'pregnant lips?' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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…or not to be…
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| | Julianne Hough isn't losing weight for her wedding: 'I don't want to look different' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Dancing with the Stars alum Julianne Hough has promised she’s not going to subject herself to the extreme dieting that many brides-to-be engage in before they walk down the aisle. The 28-year-old, who got engaged to hockey player Brooks Laichin August of 2015, told People Magazine that on her big day she doesn’t “want to look different than what I look like normally.”
Julianne, who is a spokesperson for the new Fitbit Alta HR, also said “IfI get super hot for my wedding day and I?m not afterwards, and I?m not before, then it?s like, ?Who is this person marrying my fianc?? Or, ?Who?s my fianc marrying??”
Prior to her wedding, which she said would be an intimate affair for close friends and family, Julianne confessed, ?I?ll probably want to enjoy the night before, have like beer and a burger, stuff like that. Thisis my lifestyle, so I have cheat days, but if I have a cheat day, the next day I?m really good.? And, in addition to plugging breakfast, Julianne has won me over with her take on my favorite thing in the world, carbs. She told AOL that she has learned to ?embrace carbs,? adding, ?People are always like, ‘Carbs are your enemy!’ But now I’m like, ‘My enemy is my best friend!’ It’s so important to have carbs every single meal, in my opinion, which is something I never used to think.? I like the cut of your jib, Miss Hough. And I unashamedly love carbs.
As for the Fitbit, of which I have one and am obsessed with, Julianne said she liked the motivation the device offers and uses it to keep up with her Fitbit-wearing friends, including actress Nina Dobrev. Says Julianne, ?It?s just fun to do all the competitions and stay connected. We always do our little things together and compare notes.?
Well, if you look at Julianne?s daily regime, which includes eating a sensible breakfast, switching up her daily workouts and getting a good night?s sleep, it?s no wonder that she doesn?t have to go on a pre-wedding diet to look her best. I know she?s a knockout, but she is right. I?ve been married twice and went through the restrictive eating and being miserable in order to get into that wedding dress. She?s definitely got the right idea.
Of course, that?s not to say that Julianne is able to cut loose and indulge in that pre-wedding tradition, the bachelorette party. The bride-to-be, partied over the weekend in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with her friends, including Nina, Riawna Capri and Lauren Paul.
#JulesBEACHelorette #BitchinB4TheHitchin #HastaLaVistaHough #TheFinalHoughrrah #TheLastFlingB4TheRing #BEACHeloretteWithMyBEACHES #BeachCrew Thank you @celebritycruises for the gift of this amazing Bachelorette party! ??? Photo Credit: @Nina ?
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