Naomi Watts is opening up about her struggles getting pregnant. The actress revealed that she was told by her doctors that she was going through menopause in her mid-30s when she was planning on getting pregnant. She went on to talk about menopause and how challenging it can be.
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She was shocked by the revelation
Naomi was 36 and trying to get pregnant when tests showed that she was going through menopause. "I practically fell off my chair," she told Marie Claire Australia. "I’m being told I’m close to menopause when I’m just feeling ready to get pregnant. How can those things live together at once?"
She wasn't sure if she'd ever have children
Despite being told that she would likely need a donor egg to be able to have children with her then partner Liev Schreiber, Naomi then found herself getting pregnant naturally. She wasn't sure if it was because of alternative treatments she went through, or "a wonderful set of eggs that suddenly came down for me," but she gave birth to their children, Sasha and Kai, in 2007 and 2008.
Naomi then opened up about the struggles of menopause
Naomi shared that after she stopped breastfeeding in her early 40s, she began having "hardcore" menopause symptoms like brain fog, anxiety, hot flashes, and sleep deprivation.
"I left the [doctor’s] office in pieces and rang my mum and said, ‘What the hell? How come you didn’t tell me more?’" she said. Naomi's mother went through menopause at 45 and started having symptoms earlier.
She wants to open the conversations around menopause
Naomi's mother told her that she had never talked about menopause with her own mother, so she didn't know how to approach such a conversation with Naomi.
"It was clear to me that there was this code of silence," Naomi said. "Aren’t we all headed here at some point? Why is there no available conversation or proper education on this?"
