Halle Berry Talks About How Her Perimenopause Symptoms Were Confused with Herpes
Halle Berry is opening up about her experience with perimenopause. Perimenopause is the time around menopause when the ovaries gradually stop working, according to John Hopkins Medicine.
During A Day Of Unreasonable Conversation Summit on March 25 with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Halle, 57, shared that she initially thought she could skip perimenopause due to her healthy lifestyle. However, meeting her boyfriend Van Hunt changed everything.
Halle revealed that their intimate relationship led her to experience pain that she thought was abnormal. Her symptoms were mistakenly diagnosed by her doctor as the “worst case of herpes,” a common infection that produces blisters and ulcers, before she realized they were actually symptoms of perimenopause.
“I realized after the fact that is a symptom of perimenopause,” Halle shared. “My doctor had no knowledge and didn’t prepare me.”