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Spectre’s Monica Bellucci ready to embrace the menopause: “It’s going to be great: no periods any more!”

As a Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig, much was made of Monica Bellucci ’s casting and how an older woman is seducing 007 – and she remains unfazed.

The actress, who often tops polls as one of the most beautiful women in the world, is in her fifties and insists that she’s not scared of getting older.

At 51, Monica predicts that the menopause is around the corner but while some may feel afflicted, she’s ready to embrace it.

Monica Bellucci poses at the launch of the 24th James Bond film 'Spectre'

Monica Bellucci poses at the launch of the 24th James Bond film ‘Spectre’ (Image: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

“But menopause is a natural thing, it is not a sickness,” she told the Daily Mail.

“OK, the body at the beginning will get a bit mad. But after a few months, or one year, it’s going to be OK. This is a natural process of life. I am not nervous about it at all.”

The actress is hoping to use natural hormones to help deal with the menopause, rather than HRT, but concedes that it will be a dramatic switch of pace in life considering that she was nursing her child less than five years ago.

Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci) and James Bond (Daniel Craig)
Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci) and James Bond (Daniel Craig)

“Listen, I had two kids — one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I’m going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising,” she said, before adding: “Anyway the menopause is going to be great: no periods any more.”

Monica Bellucci and Daniel Craig in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions’ action adventure SPECTRE. (Image: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc)

While the actress, who claims to have a sporadic attitude to working out, has a positive approach to the menopause, she’s not quite ready to rock her grey hairs.

She said: “Unless it was for work. For work, yes; for life, no. Maybe later. I have some friends who have white hair and they look amazing.”

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