Today, 60 million American women are navigating menopause, and it’s a stage that every woman will go through, according to Respin Health’s website. Berry, a women’s menopausal health advocate, said Respin Health is a company powered by community and backed by science to help women in mid-life.

"I won't tell the story again—some of you may have heard it," actress Halle Berry, 58, says with a smile. She's referring to her start of perimenopause, when she was misdiagnosed with herpes (in actuality, she had vaginal atrophy, a.k.a. drying of the vagina ).

Berry talked to TIME about her advocacy work and Respin, the new company she created to provide women with reliable and comprehensive information about menopause.

It’s time for menopause — and the conversation surrounding it — to get a modern makeover. And to give it a contemporary spin, Halle Berry, one of today’s leading voices behind the movement, had to respin the stigma,

The actor urged women to take interest in their bodies and find out exactly what happens during menopause. "Women find when they start educating themselves that they can make decisions from a place of power,

Actress Halle Berry has been sharing her menopause journey for a while and recently launched a website for others on the same journey.

Halle Berry joins TODAY to exclusively announce her new women’s health initiative called Respin, an empowering community that supports women through menopause. She also opens up about being told by people in Hollywood that her menopause advocacy would end her career.