Maria Shriver has opened up candidly about an uncomfortable conversation she had to have with her children. She was speaking at The Swell’s fourth annual Menopause Symposium on October 4 2025 in New York, which was co-hosted by actor, entrepreneur, and activist Naomi Watts and her company, Stripes Beauty. Chatting with Naomi and Alisa Volkman, the 69-year-old said: "My daughter has to be in the meno conversation as I learn from them about PCOS. [My kids] don't want to hear me talk about sexual health but I wanted to talk to them because my mother never talked about sex with me, and the more we share, in the context of 'we know this, we share this, and where do we want to go?'… That's the importance of community events like this. We are all architects of change."
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