"I won't tell the story again—some of you may have heard it," actress Halle Berry, 58, says with a smile. She's referring to her start of perimenopause, when she was misdiagnosed with herpes (in actuality, she had vaginal atrophy, a.k.a. drying of the vagina ).

Today, 60 million American women are navigating menopause, and it’s a stage that every woman will go through, according to Respin Health’s website. Berry, a women’s menopausal health advocate, said Respin Health is a company powered by community and backed by science to help women in mid-life.

It’s time for menopause — and the conversation surrounding it — to get a modern makeover. And to give it a contemporary spin, Halle Berry, one of today’s leading voices behind the movement, had to respin the stigma,