Gabrielle Union has been open about her fertility struggles in many of her interviews and best-selling book, We’re Going To Need More Wine. The star has now revealed that after suffering “eight or nine miscarriages”, she was finally diagnosed with with a form of endometriosis called adenomyosis (the presence of benign endometrial glandular tissue within the uterine muscle, often associated with symptoms such as pelvic pain and excessive menstrual bleeding).
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While speaking at the BlogHer conference in New York, she shared: “Towards the end of my fertility journey, I finally got some answers. Everyone said ‘you’re a career woman; you’ve prioritised your career; you waited too long and now you’re just too old to have a kid – and that’s on you for wanting a career.’ The reality is, I actually have adenomyosis.
“The gag is I had it in my early 20s. Instead of diagnosing me, [doctors] were like ‘Oh you have periods that last 9 or 10 days and you’re bleeding through overnight pads … perhaps there’s something more there.’ Every doctor I saw was like, let me put you on birth control.
“The pill can mask all kinds of things. It is amazing at preventing pregnancy; not so great with addressing adenomyosis.”
Here’s a look at what she had to say: