Stigma generates important insights into identity threats. However, scholars give little consideration to the source of stigma, the experience of the stigmatized attribute, as a key dimension of the stigmatized self. Therefore, a fundamental component of how individuals experience stigma receives virtually no attention. Based on qualitative data from women transitioning through menopause, a stigmatized reproductive transition, this study develops a model of stigma source embodiment, extended to encompass the experience of the stigma source, and stigma-related work-related identity threat. It finds that, although stigma is a social construction, the interaction between an individual's unique experience of a stigma source and stigmatization significantly influences the experience of stigma and its consequent effects on the stigmatized individual at work. This expands the understanding of stigma beyond social evaluations and incorporates the stigmatized individual's relationship with the source of stigma. Using the dichotomies of subject/object and individual/social, the study shows how the normative, visceral, experiential, and pragmatic embodiment of menopause each has a significant and distinct impact. It also identifies specific instigators of identity threat associated with each embodiment mode. Our model represents a critical first step in acknowledging the importance of stigma source embodiment for theories of stigma and related identity threat.