Ashley Greene and her sister-in-law Olivia Khoury have teamed up to help people with uteruses regain control, understanding, and peace during menstruation.
The Twilight alum recently launched Hummingway, a company that offers natural solutions, like the Cycle Soother—a transdermal, natural ingredient patch meant to relieve cramps, aches, and pains in a holistic way—to “debilitating” menstrual pain and provides an educational platform to empower reproductive health.
“I went from having no menstrual cycles symptoms to every symptom you could imagine. I had adult hormonal acne and I had debilitating cramps and my emotions were just insane,” Greene explained about her motivation behind Hummingway. “God bless my husband for sticking with me through it. But I kind of had no idea what was happening and why it was happening.”
“What I found extremely frustrating was that there was no real answer to what the root cause of the symptom was [or] how I could address that,” she added. “And so I said, ‘Okay, let me try and figure this out on my own.’”
Within the company, Greene and Khoury have also launched The Regular, which is a platform that helps others “understand their bodies.”
“If you’re talking about getting to the root cause of an issue, it’s the lack of education. It’s the misinformation. It’s the fact that most people who menstruate don’t understand what is actually happening inside their body,” Greene explained.
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