She stunned the world when she proudly declared that her vagina is ‘juicy like a peach’ since menopause.

But now Halle Berry is speaking out about a deeper concern: that she ‘wishes’ someone would say something other than ‘you’re so pretty’.

In an interview with Fortune Magazine, the Oscar-winning actress opened up about her frustration with being reduced to her looks, and her mission to embrace ageing naturally.

She said: ‘Men get Sєxy, they get grey hair, they’re silver foxes. We’re just old, and we’re haggard.’

At 58, the Catwoman star is on a crusade to change the narrative around ageing for women.

She stunned the world when she proudly declared that her vagina is ‘juicy like a peach’ since menopause 

But now Halle Berry is speaking out about a deeper concern: that she ‘wishes’ someone would say something other than ‘you’re so pretty’ (Pictured: Halle Berry wearing a catsuit in the 2004 film Catwoman)

In an interview with Fortune Magazine, the Oscar-winning actress opened up about her frustration with being reduced to her looks, and her mission to embrace ageing naturally. (Pictured: Berry as Jinx, from the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day)

‘I have always known that I am more than this shell that I walk around in,’ she explained. ‘I have longed for someone to say something to me other than ‘Oh gosh you’re so pretty!’, I would’ve longed to hear other words. I know I’m more than this.’

‘Society tells us, or has told us, that our time is up,’ she continued. ‘Well, I know that we’re just getting our groove.’

Speaking on women attempting to defy ageing, the Hollywood actress declared that ‘unfortunately we’re turning ourselves into monsters.’

But it seems that Berry does not merely speak about these issues.

And the Monster’s Ball star, who became the first and only Black actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002, has never shied away from breaking barriers.

In May, the A-lister joined a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would allocate $275 million toward research and education for menopause.

Screaming, ‘I’m in menopause!’ on the steps of the US Capitol at the rally, Berry showcased her determination to age ‘gracefully’ and naturally.

This advocacy, it seems, stems from a deeply personal experience, as the actress revealed she thought she ‘was going to skip the whole thing’, and ‘thought you could skip it if you ate well and exercised.’

But according to Fortune Magazine, it was a night of intimacy which left the Academy-award-winning actress feeling as though she was being attacked by razor blades, which prompted her to investigate what would later be revealed as her menopause symptoms.

This doctor, the star revealed, initially mistook her symptoms for ‘the worst case of herpes he had ever seen.’

The actress has since launched a midlife women’s wellness business, Respin, which focuses on supporting women through midlife and menopause.