Stevie Nicks dishes the dirt on Menopause
 

Published: June 13, 2010

The rock icon who has time and again proved her courage on all the fronts – be it her personal life or her drug addiction – is facing yet another difficult phase in her life: menopause. According to brainyquote.com, Stevie said: “Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.”

Apparently, amid several lows that menopause brought along, for Stevie the phase worked as a fighting agent against her drug addiction. Speaking about her drug addiction, blender.com quotes the Fleetwood Mac singer as saying: “Since I got out of rehab in 1994, I’ve stopped doing serious drugs. And then as menopause touched my life, I stopped even having a glass of wine. I don’t drink at all. I find that I’m spacey enough on my own that I don’t need to be drinking or smoking; it just doesn’t fit into my life anymore. I’m very glad, because it’s not like I’m fighting every day to not do drugs. They’re just gone.”

The hormonal imbalance caused by menopause resulted in her sweat glands to work overtime. While she was witnessing the peak of her menopause she revealed that she used to spend hours in the washroom. “I break out in hot flushes and I just have to sit down,” she told allaboutyou.com. “That is when I get a big, fabulous Japanese fan and cool myself. I may as well be fabulous while I’m suffering.”

During an interview, the 62-year-old reminisced how she always believed that menopause would not cause her a lot of trouble because by that time her looks would not matter her as much. “But I was wrong,” she is quoted by Fleetwoodmac.net as saying. “You think when you’re 50 it’s over. You’re not going to care. But you will care. You realize it matters to look pretty. But your hormones go crazy and by then it’s even harder to lose weight.

“I fight [menopause] every day. It takes over your life. It makes you not feel good. I’ve heard women say menopause is wonderful, the ‘change’ is great, but it’s not. It sucks. It forces you to make a choice-whether you want to get old or you want to stay young.”

http://www.celebrities-with-diseases...ause-5834.html

Stevie I think I can speak for everyone when I say we do not give a flying f*ck about how you feel about menapause right now. I mean seriously I am baffled if this is in fact a new interview. Why would she choose to discuss menapause as apposed to discussing whatever the hell it is she currently has planned.

And wasn't she going through menapause earlier in the decade. Is this a 10 year process.

I think she chose to do this particular interview to help others and share her experiences about an intimate issue, and for that, i say kudos Stevie!

Hopefully the next interview won't be with celebritieswithdiseases.com! ;)

That's what I was thinking too.

LikeAWillow and Equeen1022 recommend Hooked on Phonics!

In other words, it's a compilation of quotes strung together to make an article. It's not a new interview.

http://sub2change.com/wp-content/upl..._you_know2.jpg

And menopause can indeed take ten years, but she said that years ago and they just plucked it out now :laugh:

Okay, I'm done. I'm promise :)

Huh...they had me fooled. Good to know, thanks!

Yeah, it's a really annoying trick. How desperate must celebritieswithdiseases be? :laugh:

I agree. And since when is menopause considered a disease?

maybe as a guy you don't give a flying f@ck~ besides puberty & impotence, men's bodies do not change much:rolleyes:~

as for women, it's a whole different story, our bodies not only go thru puberty & menopause, but our hormonal makeup changes every 7 years~ not mention, that we can give birth amongst other things~ there is not one damn thing wrong w/ stevie discussing this, especially seeing as her fan base is aging right along w/ her~ & some women might find it refreshing to know our stevie physically goes thru the struggles all of us women do~

i'm just saying...

I thought this was an interview she did from the Say You Will era. :shrug:

i agree with goddess6.
as far as i'm concerned: no uterus - no opinion. :mad:

It's not new. It's made up of recycled old quotes from various sources.

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Soooooooo, hysterectomy survivors aren't welcome either?? :shrug:

Just sayin'.

lololol, of course they are, if you at one time sported a uterus you have an opinion:D;)~

Jumping on the 'not new' bandwagon. Have read this before, for sure.

thanks for clearing that up. I'd really be pissed off if she'd take the time to a menopause interview and not a new release interview.

But you don't have a uterus - therefore, you can't speak. :rolleyes:

Neither do you http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cCJ6rxJuTd...ticon+hmph.gif

I, personally, would love it if only posters with the ability to understand context would speak. I direct us all again to hooked on phonics! It really works!

No, but really, kids, Jill made a remark that if you haven't or won't experience menopause, you shouldn't judge menopause. Not that you shouldn't post in this thread. Not that we all hate cancer victims. Not that women are inherently better than men. The end.

Amen Sister! :xoxo:

Thank God. I hate vagina's. :laugh:

Thats kind of why I said "if" this were a new interview I'd be baffled. The publised June 13th 2010 threw me off. And the fact that the "62 year old discussed" implied she disscussed this sometime after MAy 26th 2010.

And I would not give an equal flying f*ck if Lindsey right now gave an interview on impetence or Mick gave an interview on hair loss :laugh: . So the lack of uterus is irrelevant

Uteri are overrated.

Tell your mother that.

Eggsactly.

I think Stevie talking about menopause is sexy in some weird way. :shrug:

I wonder how much Stevie's "menopause" fan would go for on ebay :laugh:.

Well, I would. And every time I heard SHN and realized that nothing was going on in the tall grass, I'd feel a little depressed.

It's a good thing Stevie no longer gets hot flashes. Otherwise she would spontaneously combust in those bustles and parkas and thermo gloves she wears on stage.

Michele

Hmmmm....
 

I used to think menopause was something to look forward to. Now I'm not so sure. And I don't have that long to go. :eek:

Lee :(

Can I just say that I love someone collected old quotes and strung them together for an article about menopause on a site called Celebrities with Diseases? Because menopause is totally a disease, y'all.

Next week: Stevie's thoughts on the Ebola and the monkey pox.

Also, I would like to know what sort of Japanese fan this is that cools you down during hot flashes. Not because I'm going through menopause (I have that scheduled for next month), but because it's freaking HOT 'round here.

Even men get menopause if that makes anyone feel better.
"Researchers Identify Male Menopause Symptoms
Decreased Sex Drive and Fatigue Are Among Symptoms of Late-Onset Hypogonadism"
http://men.webmd.com/news/20100617/m...signs-symptoms

Take number one: "IT F*CKING SUCKS OKAY IT'S THE WORST THING EVER AND IF YOU ASK ME AGAIN I'LL KI- wait can we do another take of that?" ..... ;)

Uhm, Stevie? Those small box-shaped things that people are carrying around with their CELL phones these days? Yeah, those are called DIGITAL CAMERAS, people take pictures with them that then wind up all over the internet. . . . . . :nod: .... :D