Actress Jessica Biel no longer thinks that the so-called "jokes of the times" are a joke.

In a recent interview with Rompers, the 2-year-old mom opened up about the internalized shame she still feels about something as common as menstruation and the reaction of "cool girls" to people enjoying other people's times.

"My knee jerk reaction is to still hide a tampon in my sleeve and gallop like someone who did something wrong in the bathroom," she told the publication, "I still have that instinct." But I just try to check myself every time I'm trying to make that move. I'm doing better by having some awareness around the fact that I'm doing it, that's the beginning.

Beale acknowledged that her "re-education" "will continue and probably last forever" when it comes to rejecting misogynistic jokes and perspectives about menstruation, adding that some of that re-education is refusing to laugh at jokes of the times.

"I'm in that place in my life: "Forget this, I'm not laughing at these jokes anymore," she continued. "I think it takes time to find a place of real, true determination and confidence within myself about what makes you feel uncomfortable and what makes you feel comfortable. And you just know that it's okay to be uncomfortable and say it out loud.

Beale recently wrote an essay for time, opening about her "30-year journey" to understanding her own period. That journey definitely began when the actress was a child and felt pressure to go along and even laugh at jokes about the period.

"There was a joke that I heard a lot growing about people getting their periods. I don't repeat it here, but believe me when I say it's disgusting, cruel and harmful," she wrote. "When I think about it now, blood boils, but when I was 10 years old, under the constant pressure of being comfortable and comfortable, all I could do was laugh at it. That's what we were taught what cool girls should do — even if they were made at our expense, just shrug off the joke.

"Many of us still harbor that shame when it comes to our time. We hide tampons up our sleeves so no one sees us carry them to the bathroom. We're quiet about what's going on with our bodies," Beale continued. "You don't have to do it this way. In fact, it should not be like this. I am interested in learning more about menstruation and encouraging young people to ask more questions. The period is not only natural, but also special. They should not be so difficult to speak.

As part of her ongoing period education, and as a continuing attempt to decontaminate menstruation, Beale educates children about both them and other people's bodies.

"People don't talk enough about periods. Period. So I wrote this book to change that," Beale wrote in an Instagram post, highlighting a book entitled Children's Books about the period. "If we adults have the confidence to tell the truth about how their menstrual bodies work, we give the children around us the confidence and the agency and voice to talk about their own bodies now and for the rest of their lives.

In an interview with Romper, Biel explained that "anyone who was born with a female reproductive system and acquired that period will experience this at some point," and that as a result "has to talk to someone."

"But never, ever, someone who gets 1 and doesn't have a female reproductive system, And God forbid anyone to say the words labia or vagina or anything, and it freaks out everyone. I know that friends and partners and siblings, just on board, know that it's happening, know that it's normal, and don't make a big deal.”