'This is not the end of life where we should be invisible and irrelevant. It's the beginning of something wonderful, actually.'
On Tuesday, which also happens to be "Menopause Awareness Day," the beloved British actor introduces , a product line catering to menopause health. The name Stripes, Watts tells me in a pre-launch Zoom interview , references the DNA of the brand, similar to how thread-like chromosomes are embedded in every one of us.
"These women [going through menopause] should feel unapologetic. They should feel proud of this time that they've spent on the earth and that all their cumulative experiences mean something," she tells Fashionista. "This is not the end of life where we should be invisible and irrelevant.
As a beauty veteran who co-founded the "clean" beauty retailer Onda Beauty in 2014, Watts says that this topic remains, unfortunately, quite stigmatized. Now 54 years old, Watts feels a deeply rooted, personal connection to the brand mission: "I came up with Stripes because [menopause] was a pain point in my life and a time when I wasn't feeling like my best self. I felt very alone and was confused by the fact that people just weren't talking about it.
For Watts, this topic is, at its core, about empathy. "We're on the precipice of learning a whole lot more of what it means to be empathetic. Before, women were just written off as 'crazy old ladies' who are just acting 'weird,'" she says. "You probably remember when you were going through puberty and how much empathy there was for you at that time from your parents because puberty was something we all understood and was well laid-out for us.
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