- Sherri Shepherd sounded off on perimenopause, calling it “the menopause before the menopause,” on the March 27 episode of her eponymous talk show
- Shepherd, 57, told her executive producer Jawn Murray that she was “heated and defeated” with getting hot flashes while still being able to get pregnant
- The talk-show host called it “the most shocking news” that she was in perimenopause, saying, “my anatomy is still playing tricks on me” because she assumed she was in menopause
Sherri Shepherd sounded off on “the menopause before the menopause,” sharing her frustrations with chin hairs, losing her teeth, and the fact that she can still get pregnant in perimenopause.
“My anatomy is still playing tricks on me. Like, every time I go to the doctor, and I think we’ve got it figured out, something else comes up,” Shepherd said on the March 27 episode of Sherri. She explained that she’s been getting hot flashes and assumed she was going through menopause — but shared that “my doctor gave me the most shocking news: She told me I was in perimenopause.”
“When she said perimenopause, I thought that she meant I was being very demure and mindful — in perimenopause — because I thought I was handling menopause well,” The View alum, 57, said.
Sherri Shepherd in New York in March 2025.
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Menopause, as her executive producer Jawn Murray said, is when “y’all get a little mean. At least my mama did” — which prompted Shepherd to say “we take a lot of umbrage when you say we ‘get mean.’ It’s just our hormones are changing and things… it’s estrogen, it’s testosterone. And we’re trying to figure out where we fit in this new body.”
Menopause, the Mayo Clinic explains, is when menstruation stops — and the time leading up to it, perimenopause, can cause irregular periods, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes and problems with sleep.
Or, as Shepherd explained, perimenopause is “the menopause before the menopause …. if what I’m going through right now is perimenopause, what the hell is the real menopause? You tell me… what is a peri-hot flash?”
She said that “I’ve been blaming all of my chin hairs on menopause. Fellas, if you get with a woman my age, and there’s a lot of chin hairs, that’s menopause. We don’t come out going, ‘Look at all this hair on my chin.’ But by the time the real menopause gets here, I swear I’m gonna look like Sasquatch from the chin up.”
Jawn Murray and Sherri Shepherd.
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She also shared she lost a tooth “due to the menopause,” explaining “I lost my Queen Latootha,” and bemoaned that she’s going to be “nothing but gums” by the time “menopause gets here.” This is because, the National Library of Medicine explains, “The teeth and gums are extremely susceptible to any hormonal changes that take place just before menopause.”
And because she’s still menstruating, “I can still get pregnant,” Shepherd said. “Oh my goodness.”
“I don’t know what this is,” she said. “I [have to] hurry up and get to post-menopause because I’m heated and defeated.”
She explained that she’d previously thought she would never have to tell a sexual partner “we need to talk” due to a pregnancy scare, but as she explained, “It turns out, absolutely, I can make that call. I went out with a man… We went out a few times, …, I was like, ‘Get ready sir. I might be calling you soon. We may need to talk.’ “
“There’s just nothing good about it here in this season of my life,” she said. “So ladies don’t let the age fool [you], ‘cause you can still get pregnant.”
