--- title: Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series description: Biel will partner with WomenCare Global to discuss everything from puberty to contraception canonical: https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-17T00:47:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:00:09.128Z article:section: Health og:title: Jessica Biel Is Launching a Sex-Ed Video Series og:description: Covering everything from periods to contraception og:url: https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jessica Biel Is Launching a Sex-Ed Video Series twitter:description: Covering everything from periods to contraception twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Actress Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Sep 17, 2015 12:47 AM UTC  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Sep 17, 2015 12:47 AM UTC Gwyneth Paltrow has [_Goop_](http://goop.com/), Blake Lively has [_Preserve_](https://www.preserve.us/), and now Jessica Biel is joining the celebrity mom media empire with a series of sex-ed videos along with the founder of the non-profit [WomanCare Global](http://www.womancareglobal.org/), Saundra Pelletier. Biel said she realized she didn’t understand how her body worked when she was 31 and trying to have a baby with husband Justin Timberlake and thought, “I’ve been on the Pill for so long; how hard will it be to get pregnant?” “Suddenly I realized I really didn’t know what’s going on inside my own body,” [Biel told _Glamour_](http://www.glamour.com/inspired/2015/09/actress-jessica-biel-and-activist-saundra-pelletier-on-womens-health). Biel’s goal is to create a series of sex education videos aimed at young women discussing everything from changes in girls’ bodies during puberty to contraception. It’s a natural second step for Biel, who has spent the past couple years distributing feminine care products to women in the developing world with Project Dignity, which aims to donate reusable menstrual cups. But Pelletier and Biel thought there was more they could do for women in America, where only “22 states require public schools to teach sex education,” Pelletier, who doubles as the CEO of biotech firm Evofirm, said. “We want girls to know what their \[body is going through\] so they don’t feel scared or ashamed or gross,” Biel said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/"},"headline":"Actress Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series","datePublished":"2015-09-17T00:47:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:00:09.128Z","description":"\"Suddenly I realized I really didn't know what's going on inside my own body\"","url":"https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/","keywords":["celebrities","Sex Education","Sex/Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4037668/jessica-biel-sex-ed-video/","name":"Actress Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series"}}]}] ```