Lisa Rinna.Photo:BRENDAN WIXTED/COSMOPOLITAN
BRENDAN WIXTED/COSMOPOLITAN
Lisa Rinnais grateful to have undergone hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after “really suffering” with menopause.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum, 60, spoke candidly about her decision in an interview forCosmopolitan’s"Sex After 60"digital issue.
“I didn’t take hormones in the beginning of menopause, and I was really suffering. Everything you can go through, I was going through it,” she told the outlet. “I couldn’t sleep, the hot flashes, everything, and I was anxious and angry and just a mess.”
Lisa Rinna wears a fitted blue dress for a photo featured on Cosmopolitan’s “Sex After 60” digital issue.BRENDAN WIXTED/COSMOPOLITAN
While Rinna shared that HRT has been “really helpful in my being able to stay feeling good about myself,” she told the outlet that she initially had concerns about trying it.
“I was really scared of it because both my mother and my sister had had breast cancer and were very against it,” Rinna recalled. “My mom took HRT for years and years and years, and they think her breast cancer had something to do with it. That was really terrifying because I thought, ‘Well, I can’t take hormones.'”
The television personality’s mind changed after visiting an Eastern-Western medicine doctor when she was 52.
Rinna said her doctor was able to find the “right mix” of plant-based hormone therapy, which has been “helpful in so many ways.”
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“Nobody tells you about what’s really going to happen,” she said. “And for me, it’s about finding a way to just be comfortable and not put pressure on myself as to who I am in this moment at 60 years old. I don’t want to have sex every five seconds.”
source: people.com
