She’s on a mission…<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]
Words by Charley Ross<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2154649213-1-scaled.jpg” alt=”Naomi Watts” title_text=”FYC Red Carpet Event For FX’s %22FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans%22- Arrivals” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Naomi Watts\u2019 brand Stripes Beauty has created a new \u2018Hotter Than Ever\u2019 campaign to celebrate and empower women throughout midlife and everything that comes with it. Her brand \u2013 which is dedicated to providing and promoting holistic menopause solutions \u2013 offers products that cater to women’s bodies, \u2018from scalp to vag[ina]\u2019.<\/p>\n She started a quest to normalise more open conversations around our health and wellness experience, when so much of women\u2019s health is trivialised or not spoken about. The actress also wants to take on the concept of self care, ensuring that women in midlife are making time for this.<\/p>\n Watts has explained that the campaign was born \u2018out of wanting just to shake that old style of, \u2018Oh, this is a private matter. These should be secrets that we hold close to our chest,\u201d\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018We shouldn’t have to suffer in silence,\u2019 she says. \u2018I started sharing my story little by little and began connecting with women who wanted to talk, but just felt afraid to. We all want to feel like we belong to something.\u2019<\/p>\n The campaign will exist both online and on large-scale posters throughout New York that she hopes will \u2018spark conversation, drive awareness, and redefine what it means to thrive in midlife\u2019.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2221463705-scaled.jpg” alt=”Naomi Watts” title_text=”Celebrity Sightings In New York City – June 26, 2025″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] The actor hopes that this movement will help to redefine the midlife age, which is often disempowering for women in particular, to an era of reawakening.<\/p>\n \u2018Our minds, our experience, our sense of self, all of these things cumulatively add up to a bolder, wiser version of yourself, which makes you hotter than ever,\u2019 she told People. \u2018And there’s a play on words of course, because yes, we are fanning ourselves as we go into hot flashes. But it’s also a time we should feel good about ourselves, hold our heads high and not fear and dread menopause like we have been taught by society and previous generations.\u2019<\/p>\n Watts wants to combat the same she felt when she began her own menopause journey ahead of schedule. \u2018I went into menopause or perimenopause super early and felt a lot of shame and no real sense of ways to communicate, not with my friends, my mother or even doctors,\u2019 she says, adding that she hopes to create a community for women going through the same thing.<\/p>\n \u2018Women in this stage \u2013 perimenopause and beyond \u2013 have often felt left out. When our hormones stop functioning the way they used to, it’s like we become redundant, expected to disappear. There’s just a whole lot of negative messaging, which feels so out of date now. And as we know, we’re more than our fertility. We are not invisible.\u2019 She describes feeling inspired to speak out after her skin started to change in the throes of menopause.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] \u2018My skin was very agitated and irritable, and I was on camera all the time,\u2019 Watts recalls. \u2018So I started researching skin and how as your hormones deplete, you become drier. And then I started connecting the dots going, this is a bunch of women who are probably going to be sharing these symptoms, so let’s try and come up with some problem solving here.”<\/p>\n Watts also namechecked some inspiring women who she felt were aligned with her mission, including author Miranda July, who wrote All Fours \u2013 a novel about a woman navigating an open marriage and new passions that manifest during mid-life. Others included Australian film and television producer Bruna Papandrea, human rights activist Jodie Patterson, comedian Chelsea Handler and more.<\/p>\n She also describes drawing motivation from the women she is close to. \u2018My family is a team of matriarchs, starting with my grandmother,\u2019 Watts says. \u2018My mum has two sisters. They’re all very meaningful forces in my life.\u2019<\/p>\n She adds that she hopes to be the same force for her own children, Sasha and Kai, aged 17 and 16 respectively.<\/p>\n \u2018I think authenticity is the most important thing, but it’s really hard to get to that place without lived experience. And that takes decades,\u201d Watts says. \u2018Our children, they’re so impressionable. I think failure is a big part of it as well, knowing that mistakes will be made and failures will take place, but you can still carry on past those. They’re just lessons. Over time, you become unapologetically and authentically yourself.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Above all, Watts describes feeling, and being, \u2018hotter than ever\u2019, and focusing on the things that bring her joy. \u2018One of my kids just graduated high school and the other has one year left, so I\u2019m trying to savor the time,\u2019 she says. \u2018Summer usually means a little bit of a trip \u2013 maybe a hop, skip and a jump to Europe. I have a house in Montauk and that’s nice. Just smelling the coastal air, swimming, cooking, entertaining and really unwinding.\u2019<\/p>\n We\u2019re a huge fan of Watts\u2019 take on life, from scalp to vagina.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Photo: <\/b>Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Naomi Watts is your new favourite wellness guru…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11529,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘wE ARE NOT INVISIBLE.’<\/span><\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]