“I wasn’t ready for that.” Julie Gaye talks about her “slow” life after menopause.

“I wasn’t ready for it, which is pretty crazy,” Julie Gaye explained on the Mesdames podcast this Friday, July 19. When asked about menopause by journalist Maitena Biraben, the 52-year-old actress spoke candidly about this phenomenon that only affects women, which corresponds to the cessation of periods and whose symptoms vary from flushing to extreme fatigue. “There are 9 million women we imagine knitting a blanket,” she denounced. In fact, the partner of Sœurs Jumelles festival president Francois Hollande explained that she “took it for granted” when she went through menopause, even though everything remained very active in her personal and professional life.

“I struggle with menopause. I wasn’t ready for this. It’s actually pretty crazy. I tell myself. “But why aren’t we ready, why aren’t we talking about it?” he continued. As for his symptoms, he defines them as follows. “I feel like it’s slowing me down. Not really hot flashes, but every now and then I have a little hot moment. Julie Guye spoke without filters, emphasizing how “important it is to talk about it, not to be alone in the face of these difficulties.”

“You’re not a woman anymore”

The topic of menopause is very important to Maïtena Biraben and her podcast, created in 2014 for women over 45. “A 50-year-old man is the sum of all his experiences. A 50-year-old woman is the end of what she was,” she declared in front of Julie Gayet, before adding: “You’re not a woman anymore, you don’t have periods anymore…” If the actress approved these words, she nevertheless called to accept everything “with joy”. Many Internet users recognized themselves in the latter’s statements on Instagram. “Yes, we are not ready to gain weight overnight. Whoops, you wake up and 10,000 bangs on top of it…hot flashes…night sweats…libido…” we can specifically read. And another added: “It’s expensive!! Speech is weak!! but yes, you should be happy to accept it.”