In March 2024, actress and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o was celebrating one of her biggest achievements in her career – winning an academy award. Citizen Digital reports.
But behind the glamour, she was privately battling with a condition that would change her perspective on women’s health.
Lupita says she discovered that she had uterine fibroids. She underwent surgery to remove them, with hope that it would be over after the surgery.
Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the uterus. They tend to vary in size as they can be from the size of a pea to as large as the size of a melon.
Despite them being harmless, fibroids could have a serious impact on a woman’s health, often causing heavy menstrual bleeding which could lead to anemia, frequent urination and even in other cases complications during pregnancy.
“I asked my doctor if there was anything I could do to prevent the fibroids from recurring”, Lupita shared in a social media post on Tuesday.
Her doctor told her that she could not stop or prevent them from recurring as it was only a matter of time until they grew again.
Lupita raised concerns that despite fibroids affecting 8 out of 10 black women, the condition remains underdiscussed.
