33 Celebrities Who Have Endometriosis

Bindi Irwin

Bindi Irwin has been tremendous candid in regards to the ups and downs of endometriosis, each getting the issue of getting identified and the toll it took on her physique. 

“I used to be a very energetic child, and abruptly, I used to be getting so drained so simply and was all the time in ache,” Irwin informed Today in 2023. “We tried and tried and tried for years and years and years. And eventually, a health care provider stated to me, ‘That is simply a part of being a girl. And that’s once I gave up, and I ended searching for solutions.”

However, ultimately, after having her daughter, Grace, Irwin stated she continued her hunt and finally acquired her solutions and an answer within the type of a surgical procedure to handle her unreal ache: “Entering into for surgical procedure was scary, however I knew I couldn’t reside like I used to be. Each a part of my life was getting torn aside due to the ache,” she wrote in an instagram post as she recovered. “To chop a protracted story brief, they discovered 37 lesions, some very deep [and] troublesome to take away [and] a chocolate cyst.”

Padma Lakshmi

Over the previous few years, Padma Lakshmi has grow to be some of the recognizable faces of endometriosis — a lot in order that she went on to co-found the Endometriosis Foundation of America. The TV host, mannequin and writer has discussed how regardless of being extremely educated and residing in a serious metropolis with entry to high-quality well being care, she initially had by no means heard of the illness.

Gabrielle Union

Talking on the BlogHer18 Creators Summit in New York City, Gabrielle Union didn’t maintain again when it got here to discussing a situation she has referred to as “adenomyosis.” Often known as “inside-out endometriosis,” it causes the endometrial tissue of the uterus cavity to develop into the uterus muscle, which damages the uterine wall. Along with extended, heavy, painful durations, one other symptom of adenomyosis is decreased fertility. 

“I may have had adenomyosis in my early 20s, and as a substitute of somebody diagnosing me, they had been like, ‘You’ve gotten durations that final 9 and 10 days? And also you’re bleeding by means of in a single day pads?’ It’s not a mere inconvenience. Maybe there’s one thing extra there,” Union stated.

Chrissy Teigen

4 months after struggling a devastating miscarriage, Chrissy Teigen underwent surgical procedure for endometriosis and shared a few of her expertise — the bodily ache coupled with the grief — on Twitter. “I really really feel kicks in my stomach, nevertheless it’s not phantom. I’ve surgical procedure for endometriosis tomorrow … however the interval feeling this month is precisely like child kicks,” she wrote, noting that her son would have been born that very same week.

Teigen continued to share updates on social media after the surgical procedure, per People, telling followers, “This one’s a toughie. My entire stomach acquired numbed. It’s gonna be numb for like, a pair days. Couple of the following days, hopefully they’ll keep that manner.” She added that “each little cough” induced ache, however “it’s actually nonetheless higher than the contractions and the ache of endo.”

Tiffany Haddish

Tiffany Haddish’s “life will get turned upsie down” each time she has her interval, she informed People in an April 2024 interview. “I’m fairly positive the satan is actual,” she stated, “as a result of the primary day of my interval, it doesn’t matter what, the satan goes into overdrive.” Haddish defined that she’d not too long ago gotten identified with endometriosis after a earlier physician stated she had a “dent in my uterus.”

“It seems it’s not a dent they noticed on the ultrasound,” Haddish stated. “It was endo that was hanging down.” She underwent surgical procedure and the medical doctors “shaved it down.” Haddish stated the debilitating ache from endo felt like “any individual is kicking me in my again,” and it will get so unhealthy that the actress and comic would faint. Haddish additionally referred to as her endometriosis-related fertility struggles “devastating,” and stated she’d had eight miscarriages.

Haddish did notice that some signs had been beginning to enhance due to a hormonal remedy. “I’ve gone from 11 days [on my period] to 4 or 5, which is type of regular, in order that’s good.”

Jaime King

At #BlogHer Health 2019, Jaime King opened up about being diagnosed with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome on the age of 20.

“I went undiagnosed for a very very long time,” she informed the viewers. “I misplaced my first child at that age. And I continued to miscarry and miscarry, and it took a few years for me to have my first youngster, and once I was going by means of this, I can not clarify what it felt like — that this one factor that we’re informed as girls is that our reward is that we will carry life, and abruptly somebody says, ‘Oh, possibly that is perhaps in query.’”

Anitta

“We have to discuss endometriosis,” Anitta wrote on Twitter in 2022. That was how the “Envolver” singer kicked off a protracted thread through which she opened up in regards to the excessive ache she’d been struggling as a result of situation, beforehand regarded as a case of “recurrent cystitis.” It wasn’t till Anitta spoke to a health care provider buddy about her signs that she was capable of get in for exams to verify that the difficulty was truly endometriosis.

“The ache is so unhealthy that you just wish to do EVERYTHING for it to go away,” she recalled of her signs, including that she was “counting the times” till her scheduled surgical procedure to deal with the situation. “Right here is my enchantment for extra info for ladies,” Anitta wrote. “Extra entry, extra basic curiosity in caring for the feminine physique in order that we could be free and be capable of deal with ourselves.”

Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts skilled endometriosis signs since she was a youngster, together with “debilitating cramps and durations, so unhealthy that I might miss college and, later, need to cancel conferences,” she informed Cosmopolitan in 2020. It wasn’t till her late twenties that Roberts acquired a analysis — “However by then, it had affected my fertility,” the Space Cadet star defined. Docs really useful she freeze her eggs “or look into different choices.”

Roberts remembered being “terrified” of going by means of fertility remedies and nonetheless not having the ability to have youngsters. She did ultimately freeze her eggs, describing it as a “troublesome course of.” Although Roberts struggled with feeling she’d “carried out one thing incorrect” to be experiencing fertility points, her endo analysis quickly launched her to a brand new group. “I began opening as much as different girls, and abruptly, there was a brand new world of dialog about endometriosis, infertility, miscarriages, worry of getting youngsters,” she stated. “I used to be so grateful to seek out out I used to be not alone on this. I hadn’t carried out something ‘incorrect’ in spite of everything.”

Roberts ultimately conceived with out IVF along with her ex Garrett Hedlund and gave beginning to a son, Rhodes, in December 2020.

Jessica Williams

Actor and comic Jessica Williams was solely not too long ago diagnoed with endometriosis, although has doubtless lived with it for 10 years, she famous in an Instagram publish. 

“Normally I’m making an attempt to get higher at acknowledging that I’m feeling ache and that it’s okay and that I could be like ‘ohhhh okay I assume I’ll go house and crawl into mattress and play Change then,’” she wrote in her publish.

Olivia Culpo

Olivia Culpo shared her endometriosis analysis on a 2024 episode of the SHE MD podcast, explaining that the ache of the situation will get progressively worse as a result of “the endometrial tissue construct[s] up [more] after each interval.” Culpo stated she has rectovaginal endometriosis and had seen her signs “since I used to be very younger.” Per the International Journal of Women’s Health, rectovaginal endometriosis is taken into account “essentially the most extreme type of endometriosis,” the place the tissue progress happens within the vagina, rectum, and constructions in between.

In making an attempt to get care, the mannequin and Miss Universe winner says, “There have been those who had been making an attempt to rob me for my cash after which there have been those who simply merely thought I used to be overreacting, which is so, so painful.” Culpo stated her husband, NFL participant Christian McCaffrey, ultimately helped her discover the physician that identified her. “Christian was calling all of the folks he knew within the sports activities world, making an attempt to get any individual to assist me as a result of I used to be in a lot ache. It was arduous for everyone to see,” she recalled. The physician “did one ultrasound and noticed that I had an endometrioma proper on my ovaries.”

Daisy Ridley

Star Wars: The Final Jedi‘s Daisy Ridley opened up about her endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome in an empowering, now-deleted Instagram publish from 2016.

She wrote: “[T]o any of you who’re struggling with something, go to a health care provider; pay for a specialist; get your hormones examined, get allergy testing; carry on high of how your physique is feeling and don’t be concerned about sounding like a hypochondriac. Out of your head to the information of your toes we solely have one physique, allow us to all ensure ours our working in tip high situation, and take assist if it is wanted.”

Lena Dunham

Author, producer and actress Lena Dunham has battled endometriosis since her first interval. She has undergone 5 surgical procedures to deal with the situation up to now 12 months alone and overtly discusses how the illness has impacted her life through essays on her Lenny Letter site.

Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough told SheKnows she began having signs when she was 15 however wasn’t correctly identified with endometriosis till 2008 when the heavy bleeding and ache pressured her to take break day from Dancing with the Stars for surgical procedure and restoration.

To assist folks study in regards to the situation, Hough has grow to be the face of an consciousness marketing campaign referred to as Get in the Know about ME in Endometriosis. The dancer and actor confused the significance of ladies having the ability to discuss in regards to the situation overtly and being supportive of one another.

“So even in the event you’re not the me in endometriosis, there is perhaps somebody round you who is perhaps,” she informed SheKnows in March 2017. “It is all about beginning this dialog. I wish to be a voice and an individual who can assist girls.”

Halsey

Singer Halsey was first identified with endometriosis in January 2016 and underwent a number of surgical procedures to deal with it one 12 months later. In a post-op Instagram post tagged #endowarrior, she wrote: “For these of you who’ve adopted this battle of mine or who might undergo with it your self, you recognize the extremes to which it may be mentally exhausting and bodily painful.”

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon manages to lift consciousness for endometriosis whereas stressing that the situation mustn’t outline those that undergo from it. After years of ache, she acquired what she describes as a “half-assed analysis,” which included half-hearted remedies, however not a complete clarification of what they had been or how the illness labored.

“When all you recognize is ache, you do not know that that’s not regular. It’s not a girl’s lot to undergo, even when we have been raised that manner,” she stated on the Endometriosis Foundation of America’s 3rd Blossom in 2011.

Mae Whitman

For 20 years, Mae Whitman struggled to pinpoint the supply of the “violently… extraordinarily intense ache” she skilled with each interval. She was given irritating anwers like “interval ache is regular,” the Good Ladies star recalled in a 2019 Instagram publish, till she discovered Dr. Iris Orbuch, who listened and “not solely defined each side of what may very well be occurring in my physique, however a complete way of life plan to diagnose, excise, and never solely handle, however actually BEAT this technically incurable illness,” Whitman wrote. After surgical procedure, Whitman felt “higher than ever” and was capable of hope for a future “the place I’m not weighed down by ache, fatigue, and melancholy” throughout her interval.

The expertise impressed Whitman to start out elevating consciousness for the situation. “I simply hate the truth that there are folks on the market which are scuffling with this, and really feel alone, and really feel like there’s nobody else,” Whitman informed People in 2021, revealing that well-known buddy Lena Dunham was the one to refer her to Dr. Orbuch. “The day that I acquired the surgical procedure was one of the best day of my life,” Whitman went on. “I’m so a lot better now, I’m a special particular person.”

Tara Lipinski

Tara Lipinski has undergone three endometriosis surgical procedures and has been open in regards to the toll endometriosis has taken on her physique. “For the final 12 months I’ve been coping with a painful endometrioma that fashioned in my ovary,” the Olympic gold medalist wrote in a July 2024 Instagram story, per People. “[My doctor] eliminated that and cleaned up all my remaining endo. (Which hopefully gained’t be coming again as I hopefully [won’t] be doing any extra fertility remedies.)”

Lipinski additionally shared that her medical doctors eliminated her fallopian tubes through the hospital keep, “because it’s an enormous danger discount for ovarian most cancers. So glad to have them out!”

Lipinski, who welcomed her daughter Georgia Winter in 2023 through surrogate, was additionally an open ebook when it got here to her difficult IVF journey — she even hosted a podcast, Unexpecting, on the subject. It’s a subject near house for a lot of with endometriosis, because the situation impacts fertility. “I feel on the finish of the day, what I discovered with so many ladies on their journeys was that everybody approaches grief or loss or wrestle in another way,” Lipinski told SheKnows in a earlier interview. “To have the ability to observe different girls that had been on their journey, I felt simply much less alone. So… I’m hopeful that my story resonates with somebody going by means of one thing related or feeling the identical manner.”

Francia Raisa

Francia Raisa has lengthy been open about her expertise having PCOS, however revealed in a June 2024 Instagram post that she’d not too long ago been identified with endometriosis and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) as properly. Raisa stated that her journey to analysis included “years of complicated signs” earlier than her medical doctors discovered a solution. The mixture of circumstances “places me at very excessive danger of getting sophisticated pregnancies sooner or later,” Raisa went on, explaining that she was “in shock” on the diagnoses.

“What strikes me essentially the most is that it’s not sufficient that I deal with my well being and physique,” the How I Met Your Father actor wrote. “With all of the advances in medication, there nonetheless isn’t sufficient analysis being carried out into girls’s particular well being care to actually perceive how girls like me are in a position to make sure our alternative to have a wholesome life and household.”

Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung first revealed her endometriosis analysis quietly, through a 2019 Instagram post. “I don’t wish to belong to any membership that may settle for me as a member, however right here I’m,” she captioned a photograph taken in a hospital hallway, including the hashtags #endometriosisclub, #lifelongmembership, and #sorryifyouhaveittooitsucks.

In a 2023 essay for British Vogue, the mannequin and dressmaker went into larger element about her expertise with the situation and frustration on the lack of efficient remedies. “It may be agony,” she wrote, happening to element how her signs had been dismissed by medical doctors. “Have you learnt what a interval is?” one physician requested her in a condescending tone, after Chung nearly missed a flight “due to a interval that was so heavy I used to be unable to depart a toilet stall.” In 2019, Chung underwent surgical procedure to take away an ovarian cyst and areas of endometriosis and hasn’t skilled any flare-ups since. “I don’t say this to brag however moderately to supply an instance of how surgical procedure can resolve the matter whether it is found and handled early sufficient — one thing that each sufferer of endometriosis deserves,” she wrote.

Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel had laparoscopic surgical procedure in her early 30s to assist deal with her endometriosis and wasn’t afraid to debate her struggles with the illness. A number of years prior, she skilled unhealthy cramping and recognizing and was identified with cysts and fibroids on her uterus. In the end, she stated it was getting pregnant that helped her ache subside essentially the most. 

“Do not feel disgrace,” she wrote in an open letter on Facebook in 2016. “Different girls are going by means of the identical subject and it is okay to speak about it.”

Tia Mowry

Tia Mowry spoke out about her endometriosis and is particularly vocal about what she believes to be a connection between the situation and weight loss program.

“Probably the most stunning factor is how meals can exacerbate irritation or do away with it,” Mowry told SheKnows in 2016. “Meals could be medication, and in the event you eat meals that alkalize the physique, it’s wonderful how that may decelerate and battle irritation.”

Alaia Baldwin Aronow

Mannequin Alaia Baldwin Aronow was identified with endometriosis in 2016, per the Endometriosis Foundation of America and has since labored to unfold consciousness in regards to the situation. In 2019, Baldwin Aronow bared her surgical procedure scars on Instagram “to convey a small glimpse of the fact of residing with this illness,” she wrote. “Many different girls have suffered by means of extra surgical procedures than 1 and carry many scars… We’re all related by our scars.”

Molly Qerim

Molly Qerim, who hosts ESPN’s First Take, was identified with endometriosis in 2011 and shared her story publicly in 2018. “The endometriosis was not simply in my reproductive organs, it was in all places,” she stated in an interview on Good Morning America. Along with being on her liver and intestines, the endometriosis tissue had additionally “compiled right into a cyst which burst after which the toxins had been all in my physique,” Qerim stated.

The journalist was initially placed on Lupron, a hormone-suppressing drug, which was administered through injections to her bottom. “Ache is simply operating down your leg,” Qerim recalled of the remedy, which additionally put her into menopause. “I didn’t really feel myself, mentally, emotionally, bodily.” Qerim switched to utilizing acupuncture to deal with her ache, calling it a “saving grace,” in addition to reducing sugar, alcohol, and processed meals out of her weight loss program.

“If I can join with another folks and assist them really feel like they’re not alone, we will battle by means of this, after which, hopefully in subsequent couple generations … they’re going to have the correct remedies and it will now not be a difficulty,” she stated.

Dolly Parton

In 1985 on the age of 36, Dolly Parton underwent a partial hysterectomy to deal with endometriosis. 

Again in 2008, she spoke out about not solely her surgical procedure, but additionally the extreme melancholy that adopted when she realized that she would by no means be capable of give beginning. “It was an terrible time for me. Every single day I believed, ‘I want I had the nerve to kill myself,'” she said.

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg was by no means one to shrink back from discussing essential issues in girls’s well being, and endometriosis isn’t any exception. The actress and star of The View opened up about getting identified on the 2009 Endometriosis Foundation of America’s Blossom Ball, saying, “I had endometriosis 30 years in the past… I used to be very, very fortunate. I had an clever physician who kind of knew what was happening and stated properly, right here take these items and he cleared it up.”

Most not too long ago, Goldberg spoke once more about her endometriosis expertise on a 2023 episode of The View. Talking to Shannon Cohn, the director of the endometriosis documentary “Below the Belt,” and Hillary Clinton, who was an govt producer for the documentary, Goldberg expressed her frustration that ladies and other people with uteruses are “always having to beg for well being care… I don’t perceive why when medical doctors go to highschool perpetually, they’re not taught a few lady’s physique.”

Of her personal analysis, Goldberg reiterated how fortunate she was to have an knowledgeable physician. “After I noticed this documentary and I heard that it takes them 6-10 years to even get the analysis, I don’t perceive that!” she stated. “What are they doing in medical college?”

Ayesha Shand

Ayesha Shand revealed her endometriosis analysis in January 2023 in an emotional social media video, describing the situation as “isolating, agonizing, and fully insufferable.” The situation induced her to “faint, vomit, spend nights and days crouched on the ground crying,” added Shand, who’s the niece of Queen Camilla. “That is all adopted by intense waves of helplessness and melancholy.”

However Shand additionally shared some excellent news: she was planning to get surgical procedure to take away the lesions. In an interview with SheKnows on the Endometriosis Basis of America’s Blossom Ball in Might 2024, Shand stated the surgical procedure “went very well” and he or she’d “progressively begin[ed] feeling higher” within the weeks since. “My first interval was a bit painful. And since then, I’m taking one Tylenol per interval and I was taking oxycodone, so it was an enormous change,” Shand added. “It’s modified my life,” she stated of the surgical procedure.

Monica

Monica publicly mentioned her endometriosis in 2017 after present process an eight-hour surgical procedure to take away cysts, fibroids, a hernia and endometrial tissue. The singer didn’t know she had the situation till two weeks previous to her surgical procedure.

She wrote on Facebook: “In life, we now have to rely all of it pleasure and know the unplanned could also be in his plan. Might thirtieth I had an nearly 8-hour surgical procedure to take away my endometriosis (which I didn’t know I had till two weeks prior), 2 cysts, fibroids and a hernia that each one had been making me very sick… I’ve identified one thing was incorrect, however I additionally knew victory & higher well being can be close to once more!! Thanks Dr. Ceana Nezhat & Northside Hospital Employees.”

Brandi Rhodes

Former WWE wrestler Brandi Rhodes had her endometriosis signs — together with bloating, irregular menstrual bleeding, and ache — dismissed for years earlier than a health care provider identified her with endometriosis throughout a pelvic examination. She shortly determined to bear laparoscopic surgical procedure to take away the lesions. Throughout the process, Rhodes informed Today.com, medical doctors confirmed she had stage 4 endometriosis — a extreme case. 

The athlete is now utilizing her expertise to encourage others to advocate for themselves. “Really feel empowered by your individual emotions,” Rhodes stated. “It might really feel actually discouraging, and you can begin to second guess your self and really feel like possibly that is [your] fault. However it’s not.”

Lexi Younger

On season 28 of The Bachelor, contestant Lexi Younger made the courageous resolution to open up about her endometriosis with not solely Joey Graziadei, however the complete viewing viewers. She opened up about her expertise additional on TikTok, explaining that she’d skilled excruciating ache that left her unable to do her job and “attending a number of physician appointments weekly looking for solutions.” Nonetheless, medical doctors dismissed her ache, main Younger to really feel “invalidated” and doubting what she felt. When she was lastly capable of get identified and bear surgical procedure, Younger stated it “actually modified my life… It was was essentially the most emotional, validating day I’ve ever had.”

Younger ended up leaving The Bachelor as her timeline for kids didn’t align with Graziadei’s; endometriosis can have an effect on fertility, so Younger desires to have youngsters sooner moderately than later. Nonetheless, Younger has nothing however gratitude for the expertise. “I’ve had hundreds of ladies say that [me speaking out] inspired them to convey [edometriosis] up in a relationship. It’s made them see themselves in another way,” she informed SheKnows on the Endometriosis Basis of America’s Blossom Ball in Might 2024. And now that she’s coming into the relationship pool once more, she’s dedicated to that stage of honesty. “I’ve not gotten to the purpose with somebody but to open up about [endometriosis],” Younger stated. “However Joey was so type and so caring. There are very massive footwear to fill for the following particular person… However I feel it’s nearly being sincere from as quickly as you begin to really feel a connection that would flip into one thing long-term.”

Kayla Itsines

Health influencer Kayla Itsines has lived with endometriosis since she was a youngster. “Having heavy, painful durations was one in every of my greatest signs and I bear in mind being so jealous of all of my associates who may keep on as regular throughout their interval as a result of that simply wasn’t the case for me,” she informed SheKnows. “I used to stroll round college with warmth pads on my abdomen as a result of I used to be in a lot ache.”

Itsines, who was named an envoy for Endometriosis Australia in 2023, says she’s enthusiastic about elevating consciousness round endometriosis. “I hope that by sharing my very own story we will encourage and empower girls to study in regards to the indicators and signs of this illness whereas enhancing outcomes for ladies with endo,” she says.

As a health skilled, Itsines additionally hopes to indicate others how she stays energetic whereas coping with the debilitating signs. “The reality is, day by day is completely different once I’m having a flare-up,” Itsines explains. “Some days train is totally NOT going to occur, different days a lightweight low-impact exercise truly makes me really feel higher and helps handle the ache.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe’s brief life was filled with ache, a few of which reportedly got here from having endometriosis, in keeping with biographies of the actor. Although she made a secret of desirous to be a mom, all of Monroe’s pregnancies led to miscarriage or being ectopic.

Monroe’s want to grow to be a mom was particularly obvious in a notice she taped to her abdomen earlier than going into surgical procedure to have her appendix eliminated, per Daily Express US. In it she wrote, “Save please (I can’t ask you adequate) what you possibly can — I’m in your fingers. You’ve gotten youngsters and you should know what it means — please Dr. Rabwin — I do know someway you’ll! … For God’s sakes Pricey Physician no ovaries eliminated.”

Per The Guardian, some have even linked endometriosis to the enduring actor’s use of and later habit to painkillers — which finally ended her life — however there isn’t a definitive proof of this.

Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer handled excessive ache from endometriosis for her entire life, she stated in a 2022 look on The Checkup With Dr. David Agus. “It was simply this ache you possibly can’t see,” she defined. “And there’s this inclination to all the time assume a girl is simply being dramatic.” She described endometriosis as a “lonely, lonely illness.” 

Schumer has continued to maintain followers up to date on her situation, together with her 2021 surgical procedure to take away her appendix and uterus because of the situation. The Life and Beth star has additionally used her platform and expertise to encourage girls to talk out about their ache and get assist. “We have to not confuse advocating for ourselves with being bitchy,” she stated on Instagram.

Eve

In her 2024 memoir Who’s That Woman?, Eve opened up about experiencing an ectopic being pregnant in 2006 whereas filming her sitcom. It was solely after that traumatizing expertise that the rapper was identified with each endometriosis and uterine fibroids. “Again then it was one thing nobody actually talked about,” Eve informed Good Morning America in regards to the reproductive circumstances. “Docs barely even talked about it. I all the time had had painful durations, however that’s additionally one thing that they inform girls, so I by no means thought something of it.” The Grammy winner went on to have a son, Wilde, by means of IVF in 2022.