In 2023, at 27 years old, Florence Pugh She decided to freeze her eggs. The decision, however, was not premeditated, but was conditioned by his life circumstances, since he had just been diagnosed with a disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome (SOP in its Spanish acronym), as well as endometriosis.
As both conditions can affect her fertility, as well as with the idea of ​​not closing the possibility of motherhood in the future, the Oscar-nominated performer chose a preventive route to preserve your reproductive health and your ability to have children, as he acknowledged in an interview on the SHE MD podcast.
“I had this sudden feeling that I should go for a checkup. I had been having some very strange dreams and now I think that maybe my body was warning me,” he admitted to the hosts of the program, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi (known as Dr. A) and the influencer Mary Alice Haney.
Aliabadi, in fact, is Pugh’s gynecologist, and they both remembered how the doctor asked her at the time if she had ever had an ovarian reserve test. “And I said, ‘No, what does that mean? I’m very young, why would I need it?” The actress recalled that she took the relevant tests and was surprised when she received the diagnosis and the recommendation to freeze her eggs as soon as possible.
“It was very strange because my family has always been very fertile. My mother had children when she was forty and my grandmother also gave birth for many years. But of course, then I get this completely different information, that at 27 years old I need, and quickly, to extract my eggs,” said the interpreter, who acknowledged that it was a “shocking revelation.”
“But I’m so grateful I discovered it when I did because “I have wanted to have children since I was a child,” Florence, who acknowledged that she should have seen the signs—between both conditions, the symptoms include irregular and heavy periods, acne, infertility, pelvic pain, weight gain, and excessive hair growth—but blamed her weight changes or her excessive body hair partly due to “being a woman” and, on the other hand, leading “a perhaps somewhat stressful lifestyle.”
The actress of Oppenheimer, Little Women either Midsommar has therefore emphasized the importance of raising awareness and educating the youngest in reproductive health. “If your dream is to be a mother one day, these things are important, How to learn to detect lumps in your breast. “It wouldn’t be that difficult to educate everyone about this when they are in school,” he added.
Finally, the interpreter concluded by focusing her attention on the need to have a proactive attitude in situations like this: “You realize that you have to change your lifestyle, think about the future. And I get the feeling that “A lot of young women are obviously not thinking about this in their 20s.”
Finally, Florence Pugh highlighted how important it was for her to know her diagnosis in time and to be able to make decisions in time. “I didn’t think PCOS was that common, just something you feel or know you have. It wasn’t really a concern. However, when you discover itit changes your way of seeing life”, has finished.