Jessica Biel Starts Sex & Gender Educational Video Series for Women

Actress Jessica Biel is on a mission to make understanding the female body easier and conversational with her new sex and gender education video series she's launching with Saundra Pelletier, founder of the nonprofit health care organization WomanCare Global. Justin Timberlake's gorgeous wife is hoping to cover every topic under the sun related to women's health, sex, and reproduction. From puberty to contraception, Biel is hoping the videos will encourage girls to speak more openly about their bodies instead of feeling guilt and increase awareness about the physical difficulties females face, according to a recent interview with Glamour.

The overall purpose of WomanCare Global is to provide access to reproductive contraception and medical solutions to women around the world. Many third world countries don't have the means to use or obtain some of the medicines and reproductive materials so commonly used in the United States. WomanCare Global partners with leading pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to supply theses health care products to different countries. Their main focus is for women to have a choice when it comes to reproduction and their bodies.

The 7th Heaven alum is looking forward to producing videos on a variety of topics that will explore how girls and women alike share several of the same concerns and struggles when it comes to their bodies. She doesn't want the videos to sound preachy or like and after-school special, but instead, an educational video with humorous undertones.

"We share girl stories, fears, and insecurities," Biel tells Glamour about her new project. "The tone is informative but also goofy, smart, witty."

Before welcoming five-month-old son Silas Randall Timberlake into the world, the actress reveals she was on an oral contraceptive most commonly known as the pill. When she decided to ween herself off of it, she was surprised that she didn't know what happens to the body as it's transitioning. If she didn't know what was going on inside her body after dropping the pill, Biel was pretty sure a lot of other women weren't 100 percent sure either. This became one of the reasons why she decided to collaborate on this project.

"I've been on the pill for so long; how hard will it be to get pregnant?'" she recalls she found herself wondering after making the big decision. "Suddenly I realized I really didn't know what's going on inside my own body. It was shocking."

The topic of period shaming also became a topical issue, as she recalled an experience from the fifth grade where she was forced to wear a massive size pad, confused about the changes that were happening to her body. She wants to make sure females never feel embarrassed or disgusted about menstruating, because it's natural. Period shaming hit the media with a bang when a woman named Kiran Gandhi ran a marathon without any protection for her menstrual flow, leaving a dark stain on her already red pants. Her stand against the act of period shaming received controversial mixed responses.

"I was in a school play, wearing a gray beard and this pad the size of a skateboard and thinking, What is happening to me? We want girls to know what their [body is going through] so they don't feel scared or ashamed or gross. Sometimes you have to have the courage to stand up for what you believe in."

Find out more about this new initiative to increase awareness and appreciation for the female body here.

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