Exclusive | All the Spice Girls have it: Mel B gets candid about menopause symptoms

Mel B always had fans — plural.Now, at 50, the Spice Girl has a singular fan.

That she carries with her everywhere.To manage her hot flashes.Before she learned it was menopause that was causing her sudden onset night sweats, brain fog, anxiety and vaginal dryness, the pop music royal (and her “quite a few years younger” husband) wondered if she might just be “losing her marbles.”“I’d be talking, I’d lose my train of thought,” Mel, whose full name is Melanie Janine Brown, tells The Post.

“I’d go into a room and think, ‘What have I come into this room for?’ And it was starting to really annoy me.I was starting to get quite worried.”She figured maybe someday down the line menopause would find her, but she didn’t know it was something practically all women will experience by their late 40s or early 50s, per the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR).She attributes her ignorance to a culture that muzzles discussion of experiences that are nearly universal for girls and women.“It was taboo.

[…] I don’t think that’s fair on women, because it’s not like, oh, 25% of women are gonna go [through it] — no, 100% of women, and apart from that odd few, you’re gonna go through it.”Each day in the US, roughly 6,000 women reach menopause, according to SWHR, which is typically marked by the one-year anniversary of the last menstrual period and results in a major decrease in estrogen.“So why are we not talking about it? Why are our doctors not educated more?” Brown asks.When she finally put the symptoms together, she wanted to know she wasn’t alone.But as the old saying goes: Friendship never ends — not even for menopause.“It’s like, ‘Oh, well, does anybody else have it?’ And [I] find out all the Spice Girls have it.”When it comes to taking care of her health during this stage of life, Brown has several new priorities.

Overall, she says, “you just have to look after yourself more.” For starters, she partnere...