{"id":2384451,"date":"2026-04-22T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2384451"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:33:08","slug":"all-the-spice-girls-have-it-mel-b-talks-menopause-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/all-the-spice-girls-have-it-mel-b-talks-menopause-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"‘All the Spice Girls have it’: Mel B talks menopause symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mel B always had fans \u2014 plural. Now, at 50, the Spice Girl has a singular fan. That she carries with her everywhere. To manage her hot flashes.<\/p>\n

Before she learned it was menopause that was causing her sudden onset night sweats, brain fog, anxiety and vaginal dryness, the pop music royal (and her \u201cquite a few years younger\u201d husband) wondered if she might just be \u201closing her marbles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be talking, I\u2019d lose my train of thought,\u201d Mel, whose full name is Melanie Janine Brown, tells The Post. \u201cI\u2019d go into a room and think, \u2018What have I come into this room for?\u2019 And it was starting to really annoy me. I was starting to get quite worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mel B, also known as Scary Spice or her full name, Melanie Janine Brown, was a founding member of the Spice Girls in 1994. The mom of three turns 51 this year. Zoe McConnell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She figured maybe someday down the line menopause would find her, but she didn\u2019t know it was something practically all women will experience by their late 40s or early 50s, per the Society for Women\u2019s Health Research (SWHR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She attributes her ignorance to a culture that muzzles discussion of experiences that are nearly universal for girls and women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was taboo. [\u2026] I don\u2019t think that\u2019s fair on women, because it\u2019s not like, oh, 25% of women are gonna go [through it] \u2014 no, 100% of women, and apart from that odd few, you\u2019re gonna go through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each day in the US, roughly 6,000 women reach menopause, according to SWHR, which is typically marked by the one-year anniversary of the last menstrual period and results in a major decrease in estrogen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo why are we not talking about it? Why are our doctors not educated more?\u201d Brown asks.<\/p>\n