Two years after revealing her endometriosis diagnosis, Bindi Irwin is opening up again about the heartbreaking reality of living with the condition.
She’s now sharing a powerful message about a question no woman should ever have to answer.
Only a few people knew
Living with endometriosis is incredibly tough – just ask Bindi Irwin. Her journey to finding answers after years of pain has been nothing short of challenging.
Bindi has often shared how the uncertainty over the years was the hardest part. Doctors didn’t believe her, she started doubting herself, and she struggled to function in her daily life. In a recent interview with Courier Mail, she revealed that she was afraid to talk about what she was going through.
It took her a long time to open up about it, and nobody knew what was happening to her, except for her mother, Terri Irwin, her brother Robert, and her husband Chandler Powell.
”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,” Bindi says.
Her friends didn’t understand
Everything began when Bindi Irwin got her first period. With it came pain, nausea, and fatigue, which only worsened as she got older. Despite this, Bindi tried to carry on with life as usual. She got married in 2020, and from the outside, no one suspected she was suffering in secret.
But living with the disease was suffocating for 26-year-old Bindi. Her close friends couldn’t understand why she was acting so strangely.
”Everyone else thought I was becoming this flaky person because I would bow out of commitment after commitment at the last minute, because I was in so much pain,” she says.
Reactions after sharing her story
When Bindi Irwin was finally diagnosed with endometriosis, an incurable disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of it, she felt a sense of relief. Last year, she took to Instagram to reveal that she had undergone surgery.
She wanted to help others by sharing her story, but the reactions weren’t quite what she had hoped for.
”In some ways the response to telling my story was devastating because so many women came forward. It broke my heart, some of their stories were identical to mine, some had taken even longer to get a diagnosis, and there was a plethora of women’s health issues shared with me, and with each other,” she told the Courier Mail
