At 67, Maria Shriver Opens Up About Aging in Candid Interview: ‘I Feel Hot’
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Maria Shriver opened up about aging and menopause in conversation with Oprah Winfrey; Drew Barrymore; Sharon Malon, M.D.; and Heather Hirsh, M.D.
“I feel hot. I feel energized. And I want my daughters to see that,” Shriver said.
The group of women discussed menopause and aging in a recent “The Life You Want” conversation for Oprah Daily.
Maria Shriver is not one to shy away from a difficult conversation. She’s been vocal in the past about menopause and has encouraged women to embrace the beauty of aging. Now, Shriver is opening up to Oprah and Drew Barrymore about feeling “hot and energized”—now more than ever.
In this first of the “The Life You Want” conversations, by Oprah Daily, Shriver joined Oprah, Drew Barrymore, Sharon Malon, M.D., and Heather Hirsh, M.D., to reframe how people talk about menopause and aging. In the episode, “The Menopause Talk,” the group of women discussed everything you need to know about menopause with the hope of destigmatizing the topic.
Specifically, Shriver wants people to know that aging can be sexy. “I feel better at this age than I have in my 20s and 30s,” Shriver said during the discussion. “I feel hot. I feel energized. And I want my daughters to see that.”
The conversation tackled so many important topics—one that stuck out to us was the women’s vulnerability about their fear of no longer being viewed as attractive or sexual after menopause.
“You’re just that dry old bag when you talk about menopause,” Barrymore said during the conversation. “And that is the conversation, the stigma has to change. We have to make it funnier, more sexy, and more safe.”
The women were honest about their emotions around aging and their goals for women to feel sexy at any age. Shriver noted that she hopes that talking about menopause and aging can help older women feel empowered and younger women embrace the process of aging.
“I’m hoping that this conversation is about health, but it’s also about stigma, and that women who are perimenopausal, menopausal, and postmenopausal, can see themselves as vibrant, as sexual, as attractive,” Shriver said. “That we’re not just attractive in our twenties, but we’re all of it, we’re whole, at every decade.”
Shriver is a longtime women’s health advocate, and she recently founded the Women’s Alzheimer's Movement and became the strategic advisor on women’s health and Alzheimer’s at the Cleveland Clinic.
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