Halle Berry wants to change the conversation surrounding menopause — one misdiagnosis story at a time.
哈莉·貝瑞想要改變圍繞更年期的討論——一次一個誤診的故事。
On Monday, at Propper Daley's fourth "A Day of Unreasonable Conversation" summit, the Oscar-winning actress joined First Lady Dr. Jill Biden for a conversation about women's health. Towards the end of their talk, Berry — who has become an outspoken advocate for menopause awareness — surprised both Biden and the crowd by getting candid about the distressing story behind her perimenopause diagnosis.
周一,在普魯珀·戴利舉辦的第四次“不合理談話的一天”峰會上,這位奧斯卡影后與第一夫人吉爾·拜登博士就女性健康問題展開了對話。在他們談話的最后,貝瑞——她已經(jīng)成為了一個直言不諱的更年期意識的倡導者——坦率地講述了她更年期診斷背后的痛苦故事,這讓拜登和人群都感到驚訝。
“First of all, my ego told me that I was going to skip it,” Berry began, per PEOPLE. “I'm in great shape. I'm healthy. I managed to get myself off of insulin and manage my diabetes since I'm 20 years old. So that makes one think, ‘Oh, I can handle menopause. I'm going to skip that whole thing.’ I was so uneducated about it at that time.”
“首先,我的自我告訴我,我要跳過它,”貝瑞在接受《人物》雜志采訪時說。“我的身材很好。我是健康的。從20歲起,我成功地擺脫了胰島素,控制了我的糖尿病。這讓人覺得,‘哦,我可以應對更年期。我要跳過這整件事。’那時候我對它一無所知。”
She then referenced her relationship with singer-songwriter Van Hunt, who she began dating in 2020. Calling the Grammy-winning musician “the man of my dreams,” Berry explained that after an instance of painful intercourse, she visited her doctor for an explanation.
然后她提到了她與創(chuàng)作歌手范·亨特的關(guān)系,她于2020年開始與他約會。貝瑞稱這位格萊美獎得主是“我的夢中情人”,她解釋說,在一次痛苦的性交后,她去看了醫(yī)生,希望得到解釋。
“I feel like I have razor blades in my vagina. I run to my gynecologist and I say, ‘Oh my God, what's happening?’ It was terrible,” she recalled. “He said, ‘You have the worst case of herpes I've ever seen.’ I'm like, ‘Herpes? I don't have herpes!’”
“我感覺我的陰道里有刀片。我跑去找我的婦科醫(yī)生,我說,‘天哪,怎么了?“太可怕了,”她回憶道。“他說,‘你得了我所見過的最嚴重的皰疹。’我說,‘皰疹?我沒有皰疹!’”
Berry said she immediately confronted Hunt about the herpes scare but when the couple tested for the STD, their results came back negative.
貝瑞說,她立即向亨特提出了關(guān)于皰疹的恐懼,但當這對夫婦進行性病檢查時,結(jié)果顯示為陰性。
“I realize after the fact, that is a symptom of perimenopause,” the actress continued, explaining how the incident inspired her advocacy. “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.'”
“事后我意識到,這是圍絕經(jīng)期的癥狀,”這位女演員繼續(xù)說道,并解釋了這件事如何激發(fā)了她的倡導。“我的醫(yī)生對此一無所知,也沒有為我做準備。那時我知道,‘哦,天哪,我必須利用我的平臺。我必須發(fā)揮我的全部潛能,我必須開始為其他女性做出改變和改變。’”
Perimenopause refers to a transitional period before menopause, when the female ovaries begin to gradually produce less estrogen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Berry told the room that through her advocacy, she aims to change "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.”
圍絕經(jīng)期是指絕經(jīng)前的一段過渡時期,此時女性卵巢開始逐漸減少雌激素的分泌。據(jù)《好萊塢報道者》報道,貝瑞在會上表示,通過她的倡導,她的目標是改變“女性和男性對中年女性的看法,以及他們對更年期的看法——這曾經(jīng)是一個骯臟的詞。”
She added, “It can’t just be the doom and gloom story. This is a glorious time of life.”
她補充說,“這不能只是一個悲觀的故事。這是人生的光輝時刻。”