“Loto-Méno” series: “I still hear about it every day,” says Véronique Cloutier

Veronique Cloutier has been captivated by her sense of pride since the release of her series “Loto-Méno”, but also by the impostor syndrome.

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“What I did was I brought up the topic of menopause and pushed the demands of Dr. Sylvie Demers. On the other hand, we must not forget that she has been leading this fight long before me. It’s not my fight,” Véro said during an interview with Sophie Durocher on QUB Radio.

On May 25, Health Minister Christian Dube announced that he had eased access to hormone therapy, as two of the hormones will now be covered by the Quebec Public Medicines Insurance Scheme.

About 260,000 women signed a petition called “Loto-Méno: For Bio-identical Hormone Therapy,” a petition launched after the documentary “Loto-Méno” aired on Radio Canada.

More than a year and a half after its release, the opinion-documentary series is still generating a lot of backlash.

“The series was released in June 2021 and since then I have been receiving testimonials every day from women who tell me about Lotto Mino. The impact is big and present. It touches me a lot and bothers me at the same time, because I did it for that. Women feel now,” Veronique said on QUB Radio. They are less alone and get to know themselves.”

“Before it was ironic, there were discriminatory remarks like ‘Good menopausal women are dumb, they’re sexy.’ We now understand the suffering menopause can hide.

The famous TV presenter recalled that the most difficult thing for women going through menopause is not to recognize themselves anymore, to stop loving themselves when looking in the mirror, and not to self-confidence.

“I often told my husband when I was in perimenopause: I hate the woman I am now. I realized through disputes and discussions that I was the problem. Things went better when I put words to how I felt,” Véronique Cloutier explained passionately.

Véronique Cloutier interviewed Sophie Durocher as part of a special issue of Véro magazine on menopause.