Bindi Irwin has opened up about the ways her endometriosis “utterly consumed” her life after doctors “dismissed” her pain.
The conservationist, who underwent surgery in 2023 to remove 37 lesions and a cyst , spoke as she received the 2024 EndoFound Blossom Award from the Endometriosis Foundation of America in New York City on Friday, May 3.
Telling the audience how her periods would come with “debilitating agony with no end in sight,” she said things got worse after she welcomed her daughter Grace, three, in 2021.
© Jamie McCarthy“My pain escalated to new heights. It utterly consumed my life,” she bravely shared. “I vividly remember lying on the floor with my daughter next to me, and she was crying and crying because she didn’t know what was wrong with me. And all I wanted was to be there for my daughter. But endometriosis was sucking away every last piece of joy and my ability to function in life.”