Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has revealed she is facing a recurring battle with uterine fibroids, twelve years after her initial diagnosis.

The 12 Years a Slave star disclosed on a Live Television Programme that her health struggles began in 2014, the same year she won her Academy Award.

Nyong’o described the peak of her professional success being met with the low of a medical crisis involving heavy bleeding and pelvic pain.

Although she underwent surgery at the time, she was warned that the condition could return.

A decade later, she confirmed she is once again living with the condition, noting she now has double the amount of fibroids.

The actress expressed frustration over the lack of progress in women’s healthcare, noting that she is being offered the same limited choices today as she was in 2014 which is a major surgery or living with the chronic pain.

She specifically urged women to seek second opinions and not to accept a hysterectomy as a first resort.

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