Lisa Rinna Was ‘Really Scared’ to Undergo Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause Symptoms: ‘I Haven’t Looked Back’

Lisa Rinna is thankful she underwent hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after “really struggling” with menopause.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 60, spoke candidly about her decision in an interview with Cosmopolitan Digital edition of “Sex after 60”.

“I didn’t take hormones at the beginning of menopause and I suffered a lot. Everything you can go through, I went through,” she told the paper. “I couldn’t sleep, hot flashes, everything, I was anxious and angry and a mess.”

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Lisa Rinna wears a skin-tight blue dress for a photo shoot published in Cosmopolitan’s “Sex After 60” digital edition.

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Although Rinna stated that HRT “really helped me feel good about myself,” she told the news outlet that she was initially apprehensive about trying it.

“I was really afraid of it because my mother and sister both had breast cancer and they were against it,” Rinna recalled. “My mom was on HRT for years and years and years, and they think her breast cancer had something to do with it. It was really scary because I thought, ‘Well, I can’t take hormones.'”

The television personality changed her mind after visiting an Eastern-Western medicine doctor when she was 52.

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“He says, ‘If you don’t start taking hormones, your hair will fall out. Your skin will be dry. You won’t be able to have sex because your vagina will be very dry and you’ll be on two antidepressants by the time you’re 60 and it will be too late.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, sign me up,'” Rinna said.

Rinna said her doctor was able to find “the right mix” of plant-based hormone therapy, which was “helpful in so many ways.”

“That was eight years ago, and I haven’t looked back. And listen, if I’m going to have a better life taking them, I’m going to do it. If you took my hormones away, I’d probably kill you,” she told the paper. The actress noted that everyone’s body is different and can react differently to menopause.

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“Nobody tells you what’s really going to happen,” she said. “And for me, it’s about finding a way to just be comfortable and not put pressure on myself about who I am at this point in my 60s. I don’t want to have sex every five seconds.”

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