Halsey is opening up about her struggle with endometriosis.
On Thursday’s episode of The Doctors, the 23-year-old songstress shared her heartbreaking story of experiencing debilitating periods and a miscarriage onstage — and how her struggles led her to begin freezing her eggs.
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G-Eazy‘s girlfriend explained:
“I’m 23 years old, and I’m going to freeze my eggs. And when I tell people that, they’re like, ├óΓé¼╦£You’re 23, why do you need to do that? Why do you need to freeze your eggs?’ Doing an ovarian reserve is important to me because I’m fortunate enough to have that as an option, but I need to be aggressive about protecting my fertility, about protecting myself.”
Adding:
“Reproductive illness is so frustrating because it can really make you feel like less of a woman├óΓé¼┬ªyou don’t feel sexy, you don’t feel proud, and you don’t feel like there’s much hope, so taking these measures to make sure that hopefully I get to have a bright future and achieve the things I want to achieve by doing an ovarian reserve is so important. Reproductive illness is so frustrating because it can really make you feel like less of a woman├óΓé¼┬ªyou don’t feel sexy, you don’t feel proud, and you don’t feel like there’s much hope, so taking these measures to make sure that hopefully I get to have a bright future and achieve the things I want to achieve by doing an ovarian reserve is so important.”
Her breaking point was when she suffered a miscarriage during one of her concerts:
“I realized in that moment I never want to have to make that choice again, doing what I love or not being able to because of this disease. So I put my foot down and I got really aggressive about seeking treatment├óΓé¼┬ªI had surgery about a year ago, and two weeks later I walked the Grammys red carpet in stitches.”
Ultimately, her diagnosis was “bittersweet”:
“It was so bittersweet, because it was the relief of knowing that I wasn’t making it up, and I wasn’t being sensitive, and it wasn’t all in my head, but it also kind of sucked to know that I was going to be living with this forever.”
Watch the Bad At Love songstress share her story (below)!!
We’re sure this will help many women going through similar struggles. Thank you, Halsey!
[Image via CBS.]
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