{"id":30493,"date":"2025-07-28T23:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:29:09","slug":"ashley-judd-promotes-liberating-aging-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30493\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Judd Promotes Liberating Aging Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cDouble Jeopardy\u201d actor shared a liberating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMavbVes_F0\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"video on Instagram\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68878df5e4b0b306e5bb7781\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMavbVes_F0\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video on Instagram<\/a> last week, in which she spoke about being a member of the \u201cWe Do Not Care\u201d club. <\/p>\n<p>The viral club was started by influencer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/justbeingmelani\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Melani Sanders\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68878df5e4b0b306e5bb7781\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/justbeingmelani\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Melani Sanders<\/a>, whom Judd credited in her post. Sanders regularly shares videos on social media that highlight what women experiencing menopause or perimenopause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/24\/well\/menopause-melani-sanders-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"no longer care about.\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68878df5e4b0b306e5bb7781\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/24\/well\/menopause-melani-sanders-club.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no longer care about.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, I\u2019m Ashley, and I\u2019m a member of the We Don\u2019t Care Club,\u201d the actor said, while wearing a swimsuit in the Baltic Sea. <\/p>\n<p>Judd began to rattle off some of the things she didn\u2019t care about \u2015 such as \u201cpicking my crotch\u201d in the video and sharing some anti-chafing tricks for wearing a swimsuit. <\/p>\n<p>She also showed off various moves in the water, \u201cbecause when we were little, it was really fun, and we don\u2019t care what people think of us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She also said she\u2019d come up with something called the \u201cMake Stuff Up Club,\u201d telling followers that as a \u201cpostmenopausal woman, I don\u2019t care if you don\u2019t like the MSU Club.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In her Instagram caption, Judd said menopause, from the \u201cperi &#8211; post\u201d stage, is \u201chuman biology.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is universal to females &amp; global. What can be a hope of We Don\u2019t Care Club? What will I, with my freedom &amp; mirth, when I let go of caring about stupid, controlling norms about my female body, be free to enJOY?<\/p>\n<p>Sanders responded to Judd\u2019s post in the comments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey my WDNC Sister. Oh how I wish I could have joined you! The beach is my love language,\u201d she wrote, adding \u201cThis video has made my day!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>20 Years OfFreeJournalism<\/p>\n<p>Your Support Fuels Our Mission<\/p>\n<p>Your Support Fuels Our Mission<\/p>\n<p>For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 \u2014 we can&#8217;t do this without you.<\/p>\n<p>We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again for your support along the way. We\u2019re truly grateful for readers like you! 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Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/support\" class=\"cli-support-huffpost__message__link js-entry-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"we&#039;re offering an ad-free experience\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"main\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/support\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"support-huffpost-mid-article\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We hope you will join us once again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cli-support-huffpost__support-button accent-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/support\" data-vars-item-name-overwritable=\"support-huffpost\" data-vars-item-name=\"Support HuffPost\" data-vars-item-type=\"button\" data-vars-unit-name=\"main\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/support\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"support-huffpost-mid-article\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"support-huffpost-login\">Already contributed? <a class=\"js-entry-link-no-impression\" href=\"https:\/\/login.huffpost.com\/login?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fashley-judd-age-liberating_n_68878df5e4b0b306e5bb7781%3Fhp_auth_done%3D1\" data-vars-item-name=\"Log in to hide these messages\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68878df5e4b0b306e5bb7781\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/login\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"utility\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"support-huffpost-mid-article\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in to hide these messages.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPost-menopausal since 2018 \u2014 and super comfortable with that,\u201d she wrote at the time. \u201cI am rejoicing in @justbeingmelani un muzzling of peri\/post\/menopausal expression and her inviting in all kinds of women to liberate their \u2018I don\u2019t cares!\u2019 We are enough, we do enough, it is enough. It is okay, we are okay.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cDouble Jeopardy\u201d actor shared a liberating video on Instagram last week, in which she spoke about being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21868,49,48,361,75,2373],"class_list":{"0":"post-30493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ashley-judd","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-menopause"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}