SLAM the STIGMA

Between raising two children, her relationship with actor Billy Crudup and globetrotting for movie roles, it’s hard to believe Naomi Watts has the time to take on a new crusade – a fairly taboo one at that.

The 53-year-old Australianstar is tackling it head-on after realising it’s just part of life. “When I was in my late 30s, I was finally ready to start thinking about creating a family. Then the M-word swiftly blew my doors down. It felt like a head-on collision with a Mack truck,” she shared on Instagram, admitting that in her case it sprung up a tad prematurely. “How could I figure this out when no-one was talking? I was earlier to it than my peers. My mentors and mum didn’t seem up for discussing it, I didn’t know how to ask for help and they didn’t know how to provide … even doctors had little to say. It’s oddly like an unwritten code of silence: women should suck it up and cope, because that’s how generations past have done it.”