Overview
- Bindi Irwin shared hospital photos and a new Instagram message during Endometriosis Awareness Month describing more than 50 lesions removed over three years, plus an appendectomy and a hernia repair.
- She called the condition an invisible disease and said she lived with 'indescribable, inescapable pain' while going 10 years without a diagnosis after some doctors said it was 'part of being a woman.'
- Irwin urged people in pain to seek answers and pointed followers to endometriosis surgeon Dr. Tamer Seckin and the Endometriosis Foundation of America for information and care.
- Support poured in from family and fans, with her mother Terri praising her advocacy and advising patients to find surgeons who perform excision rather than ablation, and her husband calling her the 'strongest person' he knows.
- The World Health Organization estimates about 190 million people live with endometriosis and says many face a four-to-12-year wait for diagnosis, underscoring why public advocacy can prompt earlier care.