Badass Female Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out Against Period-Shaming

It’s 2018, and for many ignorant people, there’s still a stigma associated with periods. However, there is a loud pack of Hollywood women trying to change that. Many female celebrities, including Lena Dunham, Emily Ratajkowski, and Meghan Markle, have spoken out against menstrual stigmas and opened up about their own experience with period-shaming to shed any shame or embarrassment associated with the natural process.

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As these badass women point out, there’s nothing wrong with periods—it’s a natural process that happens to almost every woman—so why is there a stigma? To prove once and for all that period-shaming needs to end, we’ve rounded up powerful quotes from female celebrities who are encouraging their fellow women to openly talk about their periods in an effort to reduce the stigma all around. Read their stories ahead.