Jessica Biel Talks to Her Sons About Her Period. She Wants More People to Do the Same.
14.05.2024 - 15:09
/ glamour.com
was not high on the list.
Frankly, it wasn't even on the list.
But when she and her producing partner, Michelle Purple, went in for a meeting with the founder and CEO of A Kids Co.
to see about collaborating, suddenly , and found herself adding “children's author” to her list of jobs.“It was a total accident,” Biel tells Glamour over Zoom.
“I've always been interested in the female reproductive health and wellness space, and how I can be involved a way that feels authentic and helpful for me, my family and other people's families.
And it was just one of these weird kind of kismet moments where we were asked what we wanted [to talk about and explore].
Michelle and I thought, ‘Well, the first thing that really comes first for young women is your period.’ And even as a 40-something, I still don't know that much about it on some level.
I don't know why my cycle does the things that it does.
And it's crazy that I feel that way at my age.”And so, A Kids Book About Periods was born.
Biel, who is married to Justin Timberlake and a mother of two sons, knew that she wouldn't work on this book alone, which is why she teamed up with , a global nonprofit which strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy, to write it, in addition to their staff of experts.“We didn't want to make it sound like, 'Aunt Flo is coming this month! She's here to visit,'" Biel says.
“Kids can handle the language.
They want to know the truth.
And if you normalize the language early on, then it doesn't sound weird.
Why not tell the truth about how our bodies work?”The result is a straight-forward, easy-to-understand and informative book that parents and adults can give or read to kids.
And it's not just for young
.