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Menopause — The Women I Would Love to Interview

Kristen Petroff
4 min readOct 23, 2023

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Menopause — The Women I Would Love to Interview

So many talented, amazing, and famous women are speaking up about menopause.

Here is a small sampling:

Bette Midler, Drew Barrymore, Cynthia Nixon, Michele Obama, Salma Hayak, and Whoopie Goldberg.

I totally want to interview them. That was my initial list. But after thinking about it, I would also like to interview Martha Stewart, Nancy Pelosi, Lily Tomlin, Angela Bassett, Diane Lane and Joan Cusack.

The list could grow longer because when I think about menopause symptoms and what all of these women have to go through in the public eye, I want to know how they do it. I can’t even make it to the market without a hot flash and a nauseous spell.

You know how sometimes you feel a connection with someone you have never met, just because of an interview, TV show, movie or song?

I feel that with these women, and they have all been an important part of my life.

Bette Midler — My mom used to play the Divine Miss M all the time when I was a kid. Delta Dawn, Do You Want to Dance, Chapel of Love. I fell in love with her and her music before I was 8 years old. She has been talking about menopause since 2001.

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Kristen Petroff
Kristen Petroff

Written by Kristen Petroff

Aloha. Heading into my 6th year of Menopause. Welcome to Hell.

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