Kate Winslet is opening up about her sex life.
The 48-year-old Titanic alum spoke out during a recent episode of the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast about undergoing testosterone replacement therapy.
While addressing a relationship question about a listener wanting to rekindle her sex drive with her longtime boyfriend, Kate spoke of her own experience.
“Sometimes women have a real dip in libido because there might be stuff going on with their thyroid. There could also be stuff going on with your level of testosterone,” she said.
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“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 … I know,” she went on.
She suggested that the listener should have her thyroid levels and testosterone levels checked: “Those things could have a direct impact on how you’re actually feeling. It’s not your fault, our bodies are weird and they behave in strange ways, especially as we get older.”
She continued: “So there could be a dip in those hormonal levels for you that is contributing much more than you think to how you’re feeling about having sex with your boyfriend, so I would definitely go ahead and do that.”
“We have to own [our bodies], this is the thing…we’re so conditioned, women, in our 40s to think, ‘Oh well I’m creeping closer to the end.’ You think you’re going into menopause and you’ll stop having sex, your boobs are going to sag and your skin’s going to go crepy. First of all, so what? And secondly, it’s just conditioning,” Kate explained.
“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. I say to my friends all the time, ‘You look amazing.‘ ”
