I didn't know anything about Perimenopause. I couldn’t understand what was happening. We women are driven by our hormones, and they are going crazy. I was having palpitations, and trying to make sense of it. Even most gynaecologists don’t know about it, or talk about it,” says actor Shamita Shetty, who spoke about her experiences in November of 2023, after her stint at Bigg Boss. Along with intense palpitations, she had put on weight, which was refusing to budge, and her mind would drift away in the middle of conversations. “I hadn’t even had this conversation with my own friends. When I finally did speak about it, many of them said ‘we are going through the same!’”