Halle Berry Breaks Her Silence About Divorce: “I’m doing ok, I really am.”

The 49-year-old Hollywood icon ready to celebrate her 50th birthday upcoming this August, “I am not going to be defined by that number, yeah it’s coming. Yeah, so what. I am not going to be defined by that 5-0.”

She laughs:

I want it to come and go as fast as it can.”

And adds:

I’m going to take my five best girlfriends to a Caribbean island, we’re going to have a cleansing, we’re going to jump in the ocean butt naked and have a spiritual moment and bond and connect as women. That’s how I’m going to blow it out with my girls, with my best, closest, dearest friends…I love my womanships.

Berry is focusing on her work with women at the Jenesse Center, an organization dedicated to domestic violence prevention and intervention,

It’s a charity that really services what I call the forgotten ladies and children, and it’s so important that we keeping bringing awareness to domestic violence, and it’s so important that we keep shining a light on this issue.

Teaming up with the Entertainment Industry Foundation to celebrate the center’s 35th anniversary,

Women are so often devalued and we grow up with that belief about ourselves so when we find ourselves in an abusive relationship, we don’t think we’re worthy to be out of it, we don’t think we deserve better so our idea at the Jenesse Center is to teach them a better way to let them know that somebody loves you, that’s our big dream.

Sharing her advice for women who may be in an abusive relationship, she says,

I say something that’s very simple, I tell them that if a man or anyone lays their hands on you one time, they will do it again. If it happened once, girl, it’s gonna happen again and you have to go, you have to love yourself and your kids enough to go.

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