Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More

S2 Ep81: I’m Almost 81 and Couldn’t Be Happier with That Number and My Life: A conversation with Kathryn Leigh Scott


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It is no longer unusual for a woman to live well into her 80s or 90s, allowing for multiple career chapters.  Today, my guest is 80-year-old former Playboy Bunny, actor, and author Kathryn Leigh Scott. 
Kathryn Leigh Scott is best known as the actor who was the leading lady of NBCs Dark Shadow, the gothic vampire drama that is now a cult classic. 

In this episode, we discuss what keeps someone youthful and productive from decade to decade. :
  • Why being in her 80s is an exciting time of life
  • Kathryn Leigh Scott’s experience as a Playboy Bunny, and how it changed her
  • The story behind the Gloria Steinem article
  • Kathryn’s years as the lead actress in Dark Shadows
  • Her acting life post Dark Shadows
  • Kathryn’s writing career
  • What comes next
  •                                                   Kathryn Leigh Scott
                                         https://www.kathrynleighscott.com
                                           https://twitter.com/kathleighscott
                               https://www.instagram.com/kathrynleighscott

    Best known for playing multiple roles in the classic Gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows Kathryn Leigh Scott has also appeared in many other movies and TV shows. She is a prolific author and a former Playboy Bunny. She’s appeared in The Eleventh Green, Three Christs (2020) with Richard Gere and Juliana Margulies and Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York (2020). In addition to The Bunny Years (the 25-year history of Playboy Clubs told through the women who worked as Bunnies), Katherine has written four novels, September Girl, Jinxed, Down and Out in Beverly Heels, and Dark Passages; a memoir, Last Dance at the Savoy (Cumberland Press), and a trilogy of books on caregiving: Now With You, Now Without, The Happy Hours and A Welcome Respite  

                                             Articles by Katherine Leigh Scott
    I’m turning 80 and Why I Couldn’t Be Happier with That Number and My Life
    https://www.aarpethel.com/fulfillment/im-turning-80

    Why This May Be the Best Time of the Day to Have Sex
    https://www.aarpethel.com/relationships/why-this-might-be-the-best-time-of-day-to-have-sex


    Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

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