Maria Bello says she tried her hardest to combat indicators of growing old.
In an Instagram put up on Monday, Bello, 56, mentioned she had “determined to return again to instagram after a two 12 months (meno)PAUSE.” She detailed going by means of the early phases of menopause throughout COVID-19, and the makes an attempt she made to cease her look from altering because of this.
“I took bio-identical hormones (and nonetheless do), dieted more durable and sooner however nonetheless managed to achieve 15 kilos, tried Ozempic for every week however gave up after the fixed nausea and vomiting, removed the waddle on my neck, tried Botox, fillers and lasers, face lotions, cellulite machines, face threads, enamel straightening and extra,” she wrote. “I did copious quantities of remedy, together with micro-dosing psilocybin, left Hollywood and all social media and on the finish of all of it lastly moved to Paris. That was October of 2021.”
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After these intensive steps, Bello mentioned, she pivoted to work on her psychological state greater than her look, and wrote that she “determined then to embrace the PAUSE in menopause and immerse myself within the 7 duties of mid-life that Carl Jung spoke about.”
Jung seen growing old as a developmental course of, somewhat than a passive ready interval the place one merely whiles time away till the tip of life. Bello tagged the put up with #thepause and #mariasmenopause, hinting that she’d be sharing extra of her journey in posts to return.
“Now after lastly popping out of my cocoon of self reflection, I wish to share my journey over the past two years to just accept my newly rising self,” she wrote. “I hope these posts will assist anybody crossing over to the ‘second half of life’ and encourage them to not keep away from menopause however to embrace it. So right here we go!”
Bello was a producer and has a narrative credit score on 2022’s The Lady King.
