Black Leopard Vat Us Star Lupita Nyong’o has been opened about the suffering of uterine fibroids.
The 42 -year -old actress shared her experience of painful health in honor of the month of fibroid awareness.
Uterine fibroids, according to the NHS, are “non -cancer growth that grows in or around the uterus”.
Growth varies in size and consists of muscle and fiber tissue.
In an Instagram post, which was shared on Tuesday (July 15th), Nyong’o explained how he realized that he had a womb in 2014, in the same year he won his Oscar 12 years of a slave.
The star told the fans that he had had surgery to eliminate 30 fibroids, but it was said by doctors: “It’s just a lot of time to grow again.”
Nyong’o noted: While some people with fibroids do not experience any symptoms at all, others have “disorders side effects” including “severe menstrual bleeding and anemia, pelvic pain, frequent urination and pregnancy complications”.
“Eight out of 10 black women” and “Seven out of 10 white women” who experience fibroids at some point in their lives, she added.
Despite how common the disease is, Nyong’o said the community is not talking enough about it, or in general women’s reproductive health.
“When we get into puberty, we are taught that courses mean pain and this pain is simply part of being a woman,” she wrote. “I started talking about my experience privately, and I realized that many women do it. We alone with something that affects us more.
Nyong’o argued that it is very important that “we stop treating this huge issue like a series of adverse accidents” and “disintegrating women’s pain”.
“I anticipate the future with basic training for adolescents, better screening protocols, strong preventive research and less aggressive treatments for uterine fibroids,” he wrote. “Let’s study women’s health and prioritize this chronic disease that has never been comprehensively studied.”
Nyong’o explained that she has joined a series of Democratic Congress and Senators to introduce a “package of cervical fibroids”, which “expands the research budget, increases premature increases and interventions for uterine fibers, examines the causes of cervical cancer and generally.”
She has also worked with the Foundation for the Women’s Health to provide FWH X Lupita Nyong’o uterine fibroids. His financial aid allows the foundation to “seek research offers for the development of minimalist or non -invasive treatments for uterine fibroids to reduce symptoms and improve quality of life for 15 million patients with this chronic disease in the United States.”
Nyong’o can be seen next to Charlize Tron and Anne Hathavi in the Fantasy Christopher Nolan Action Fantasy OdysseyWhich is set for publishing in 2026.
