Yvette Nicole Brown doesn’t want women “over 40 or 50” to feel shame regarding their choice to be single and child-free.

The actress appeared on an episode of Lemonada podcast "My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani," posted last Wednesday, November 27, ahead of her upcoming wedding to actor Anthony Davis. Although the "Good Times: Black Again" star will soon be walking down the aisle, around the 24-minute mark of the episode, Brown imparted a message to middle-aged women who are still in a season of singledom.

“I was 50, 50, 51 and hadn't found the one,” Brown told Saujani about her decision to not settle. “And had decided … my natural set point is joy. I'm not going to be miserable. I refuse. So I had decided that, God had given with both hands in so many areas of my life. I'm like, I would be greedy and also just hateful to be mad at him because love wasn't, you know, on my list of things to have.”

She added that her life “wasn’t horrible” as a single woman and also gave credit to Tracee Ellis Ross for being comfortable with singleness and not being a mother in her 50s. 

“You're not wrong or missing or lacking if you're a single woman without kids over 40 or 50,” Brown continued.

“Sometimes love happens, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you make decisions when you're younger that you spent too much time with the wrong one. There's a lot of reasons, but I think that we're doing every woman a disservice when we tell her that she only has value if she has a husband and children.”

“I just think that's so unfair. There are some women that don't want to have kids. There's some women who can't have kids,” Brown said.

After sharing a story about her college professor who refused to marry and instead traveled as a single woman, Brown shared that she is “grateful” to have found her “perfect match” later in life.

“But I was really great when I was single,” she said. “But that said, I would have been in a much more horrible place in life had I said yes to one of them knuckleheads I was dating before. So the message is, don't just grab somebody because you feel like your time is running out.”

Brown concluded, “You will not regret being single your entire life if you live a full rich life, but you will regret just grabbing somebody because this musical chairs and the music is ending. Don't do that.”

Earlier this week, Brown appeared on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show,’ where she offered the audience a message on waiting for their person around the 2-minute mark of the video below.

“I think it's important for everyone to wait until [they’re with] the one their heart loves and I've met guys through the years and it was just like, ‘Oh, it's not him.’ And then Tony and I have been friends for 25 years and he was married, so I never dreamed of him in that way,” Brown said. “His marriage ended and we became friends and I was like, ‘Oh, this is the guy that my heart loves. He makes me laugh.”

“So find the one that gives you peace,” she continued. Find the one that, if the worst thing happened to you, you'd want them holding your hand. It's not about their height, it's not about how much money they make, it's the peace they bring into your soul.”