{"id":99865,"date":"2017-03-13T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=99865"},"modified":"2017-03-15T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:05:49","slug":"meghan-markle-period-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/meghan-markle-period-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Speaks out on Period Stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think back to your first period. If you felt confused and\/or embarrassed, you&#8217;re not alone. All over the world, young girls feel ashamed when they start their period because of the stigma surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many of us have the luxury of pads, tampons, and anti-inflammatory pills to make our time of the month more comfortable, but girls in other parts of the world aren&#8217;t as lucky.<\/p>\n<p>And<em> Suits<\/em>\u00a0star Meghan Markle wants to make a change. She recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/meghan-markle-period-stigma_us_58c19a71e4b0ed71826addb9\" target=\"_blank\">penned an essay for TIME<\/a> to share her thoughts on the stigma surrounding menstrual health.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on societal ignominy in the developing world, shame surrounding menstruation and its direct barrier to girls education remains a hushed conversation. As a result, both household dialogue and policy making discussions often leave Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) off the table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Markle recalled her experience from her travels in Delhi and Mumbai when she &#8220;met girls and women directly impacted by the stigmatization of menstrual health to learn how it hinders girls&#8217; education.&#8221; She states that over 113 million young girls between the ages of 12-14 are on the verge of dropping out of school because they&#8217;re either embarrassed, believe that period blood marks the presence of an evil spirit, or think their bodies have been injured&#8230;that&#8217;s one more girl that could&#8217;ve grown up to be an influential woman if she had received the proper education on menstrual health.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beyond India, in communities all over the globe, young girls&#8217; potential is being squandered because we are too shy to talk about the most natural thing in the world. To that I say: we need to push the conversation, mobilize policy making surrounding menstrual health initiatives, support organizations who foster girls&#8217; education from the ground up, and within our own homes, we need to rise above our puritanical bashfulness when it comes to talking about menstruation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read her full essay <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4694568\/meghan-markle-period-stigma\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on the stigma surrounding periods? Weigh in on the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Think back to your first period. If you felt confused and\/or embarrassed, you're not alone. ...","author":1427020,"featured_media":99894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,260,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13150914\/shutterstock_119323300-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13150914\/shutterstock_119323300.jpg","formated_date":"March 13, 2017","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#18cc24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}