While speaking with Gayle King during CBS Mornings' Facing Fertility series connected March 22, Drew opened up astir her experience with perimenopause—which refers to the clip erstwhile the assemblage starts making its earthy modulation to menopause.

"I realized that I was successful perimenopause erstwhile I started having my play each 2 weeks," the 48-year-old shared. "One doc besides conscionable told maine this could last, successful the worst-case scenario, 10 years. And I was like, I volition ne'er marque it 10 years similar this!"

"Well, I did!" Gayle, 68, chimed in, laughing. "It's true, it tin past 10 years. I mean, the perimenopause doesn't past 10 years but they accidental by the clip you're 50, there's decidedly thing going on."

The broadcast writer added, "Not to get excessively graphic but erstwhile it archetypal happens for a batch of people, it looked similar a transgression scene."

She besides told Drew that feeling your body's somesthesia emergence is simply a communal symptom. "And past you tin sometimes person dripping, drenching sweats," Gayle said. "I've been connected the reddish carpet wherever photographers say, 'Gayle, are you OK?' I go, 'It's conscionable a blistery flash,' and they go, 'Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.'"

While Drew admitted that it tin sometimes beryllium pugnacious to talk up astir menopause due to the fact that it's often associated with aged age, she hopes that the much radical stock their experiences, the little stigma volition beryllium astir it.

"The much women successful their 40s, 50s and 60s are looking truthful attractive, feeling truthful vibrant, surviving their champion lives," she said. "The mode menopause has been branded is, 'You're old, you're done.' That's not it."