{"id":112310,"date":"2024-07-17T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/abbott-elementarys-lisa-ann-walter-was-too-embarrassed-to-admit-she-had-started-the-menopause\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:01:42","slug":"abbott-elementarys-lisa-ann-walter-was-too-embarrassed-to-admit-she-had-started-the-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/abbott-elementarys-lisa-ann-walter-was-too-embarrassed-to-admit-she-had-started-the-menopause\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Elementary&#8217;s Lisa Ann Walter was &#8216;too embarrassed&#8217; to admit she had started the menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-07-17\" datetime=\"1721253702\" pubdate=\"\">17 July 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Ann Walter was &#8220;too embarrassed&#8221; to admit she had started the menopause.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lisa Ann Walter wants attitudes towards the menopause to change<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 60-year-old actress &#8211; who stars as Melissa Schemmenti on the Emmy-nominated series &#8216;Abbott Elementary&#8217; &#8211; opened up about coming to the end of her natural reproductive cycle and wants &#8220;shame-based&#8221; attitudes towards it to change.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told People: &#8220;Getting older as a female in this country has got to become something that is not the punchline or a topic that&#8217;s shameful.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anybody in my mother&#8217;s generation that spoke openly about menopause. They kind of refer to it in these hushed tones \u2014 it&#8217;s like when people used to talk about periods like the curse. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Anything that has to do with being a woman is somehow connected to something that&#8217;s shame-based.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I was too embarrassed to say, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m not nervous. I&#8217;m just old and having a hot flash.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Women are sort of forced into maintaining youth or the illusion of youth. It&#8217;s completely unfair and then you discount all of the wonderful things that go with being mature and experienced and the wisdom that goes along with all of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Parent Trap&#8217; star &#8211; who has Jordan, 36, and Delia, 32, with ex-husband Sam Baum as well as 23-year-old twins Spencer and Simon from a different relationship &#8211; recalled some advice her mother had given her on going through the change and has held onto it to this day.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;She said, &#8216;You know, Lis, I don&#8217;t feel any different on the inside than when I was like a 17-year-old standing in the hallway of my high school. Inside I feel like the same person. I know I&#8217;m getting older, I have a mirror, but I don&#8217;t feel any different.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And I say for myself personally, I kept that with me.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/abbott-elementarys-lisa-ann-walter-embarrassed-admit-started-menopause-1403097.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 July 2024 Lisa Ann Walter was &#8220;too embarrassed&#8221; to admit she had started the menopause. Lisa Ann Walter wants attitudes towards the menopause to change The 60-year-old actress &#8211; who stars as Melissa Schemmenti on the Emmy-nominated series &#8216;Abbott Elementary&#8217; &#8211; opened up about coming to the end of her natural reproductive cycle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3932,8787],"class_list":{"0":"post-112310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-lisa-ann-walter","9":"tag-sam-baum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}