Superstar screen goddess, Lupita Nyong’o, opened up about her fibroids diagnosis and experience with the condition in a recent post, coinciding with July as Fibroids Awareness Month.
The actress said that she underwent surgery to remove 30 fibroids from her womb after discovering them in 2014, just when she was basking in the euphoria of her Academy Award win.
Shocking, right?
What’s even more shocking is the stats: 8 in 10 black women and 7 in 10 white women will get a fibroids diagnosis in their prime reproductive years, meaning that it’s more common than we think.
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One of the underlying factors contributing to this has been named: estrogen dominance.
What is estrogen dominance?
It refers to a state where a woman’s body has higher levels of the hormone, estrogen compared to the hormone, progesterone.
