Selma Blair felt as if she was being gaslit from the time she was a pre-teen. Constance Zimmer was shocked at how much she didn’t know about what to expect about her health after she turned 50. The common thread for both actors after facing physical challenges was the realization that women need to demand more from the medical establishment.
Blair and Zimmer spoke about their experiences as part of the Flow Space Women’s Health Summit, held in Los Angeles on Oct. 9. Blair discussed her lifelong struggle with pain, fatigue and neurological problems that were not diagnosed as multiple sclerosis until she was in her 40s in 2018. Zimmer appeared with writer and podcaster Heidi Clements in a session about the pair’s initiative to educate women about the physical and emotional changes that c