The actress suffers from endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome, two diseases which can have consequences. She chose to freeze her eggs to have children and calls for better awareness.
Florence Pugh revealed this Tuesday in the podcast She MD that she suffered from endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – two conditions that can impact fertility.
“My life has completely changed since I learned this,” confides the 28-year-old actress, who was revealed in 2019 by Midsummer. The diagnosis was “a staggering revelation” for her.
“I felt the need to go (to the gynecologist) to have everything examined. I had had strange dreams. My body was trying to warn me,” explains the actress.
She recounts her first appointment with her gynecologist, Thaïs Aliabadi, who also hosts the podcast She MD: “She asked me if I had done a follicle count (where eggs develop).”
“I remember answering him: 'What are you talking about? I'm so young. Why would I need to count them?'” continues Florence Pugh, who was 27 at the time.
“No warning signs”
The gynecologist then advised her to freeze her eggs, the female reproductive cell located in the ovaries, if she wanted to have children. Because in the case of endometriosis, the stock of oocytes can be very low and decline quickly.
“It was very strange because in my family women get pregnant very easily. My mother had children after 40, my grandmother too. I never thought it would be different for me. He There were no warning signs.”
Florence Pugh considers herself “very lucky” to have received her diagnosis at a very young age. “I told my friends what I was going through. And I think two or three of my friends went to get checked out and found out they had the same thing.”
She calls on women to get diagnosed. And better prevention. “It's a simple conversation to have when you start getting your period or when you start having sex.”
“It shouldn’t take this long to find out what you’re suffering from,” insists the 28-year-old actress.
“I want to find love”
Florence Pugh, who filmed this year in the sequel to Dune and will be next year in the romantic drama Love in the presentexplained last September to the British version of Vogue that she wanted children.
“I want to find love and have babies,” she told the publication before adding, “I'm trying to figure out when to do that.”
According to the World Health Organization, PCOS is “a significant public health problem and one of the most common hormonal disorders among women of reproductive age.”
This chronic and incurable disease, which is one of the main causes of infertility, affects approximately 8 to 13% of women of childbearing age. Up to 70% of cases go undiagnosed.
