Kate Winslet Says Women 'Get Juicier and Sexier' As They Age

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | September 17, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | September 17, 2024 |

This week in Good For Women News: Kate Winslet, 48, reveals she underwent testosterone replacement therapy to boost her libido.

“Sometimes women have a real dip in libido because there might be stuff going on with their thyroid, she explained on the How to Fail podcast. “There could also be stuff going on with your level of testosterone.”

“A lot of people don’t know this, but women have testosterone in their body. When it runs out, like eggs, it’s gone, and once it’s gone you have to replace it and that is something that can be done and you’ll feel sexy again,” she said, adding, “Our bodies are weird and they behave in strange ways especially as we get older.”

Speaking as a young woman with hypothyroidism, it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with getting older, either. Bodies and hormones are weird at all ages, and women’s bodies, especially, are treated like mysterious, miraculous vessels that might blow up or break if you get too close. But women are trained to be especially ashamed of their bodies as they age, and especially when it comes to sexuality outside of reproduction.

“I think women, as they get older, get juicier and sexier and more embedded in their truth of who they are and more powerful, more able to walk through the world and care less and that is an empowering thing,” Winslet said.

My mom keeps telling me I’ll care less when I get older, but she’s my mom, so it’s my job to roll my eyes at her. But if Kate says it, it must be true (sorry, Mom). *Insert sounds of readers rolling their eyes at me for being young here.*

No, but really, go to your doctor and get your thyroid checked.