Bindi Irwin opened up about her harrowing health journey with severe endometriosis—a condition that left her in debilitating pain for years.
At 26, the Australian star isn’t just sharing her story; she’s amplifying the voices of countless women who’ve faced similar battles.
“It is scary when you open up about your most vulnerable and painful times, when you talk about when you felt you were sitting in a very large hole and didn’t know if you were going to crawl out,” she said in a recent interview.
“It would just be excruciating pain in my side. And I would think that I was losing our beautiful daughter…. I had no idea about what was happening. And so now I have answers,” the Dancing with the Stars winner toldGood Morning America during a 2023 interview.
“But at the time I was terrified every day that I was going to lose our beautiful daughter,” she continued. “For me and Chandler, we’re so lucky to have Grace. So many women can’t fall pregnant because of problems with endometriosis.”
Now, when people ask her when she is having her next child, Bindi finds herself feeling a lot of “hurt and pain.”
“You know, some people don’t want another child, some can’t have another child, and some people have gone through enormous loss and heartbreak before they have their much wanted child,” she said
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“I think it’s so important to think about the hurt and pain that can lie behind that question,” she told Courier Mail.
“When I went through endo and people would ask, ‘When are you and Chandler having another child?’ I used to think, ‘If you could see on the outside what it feels like on the inside you would never ask.’ It would completely change the way you approach somebody,” she told the outlet.
She stressed how some people might not have children for various reasons, despite sometimes wanting to be a parent.
“You know, some people don’t want another child, some can’t have another child, and some people have gone through enormous loss and heartbreak before they have their much wanted child,” she added. “I think you have to be kind in every part of life. If you have the urge to ask, take a second. If someone has good news to share, they’ll share it.”
Netizens expressed gratitude to the conservationist for sharing her journey with endometriosis
