Former Miss Nigeria, Nike Oshinowo has revealed that she’s been battling endometriosis (a condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain) since she was 13. The 50-year-old beauty, who became the mother of twins via surrogacy in America 3 years ago, made this disclosure recently at the Gala Night of Fun and Fund Raising For Endometriosis, organized by Endometriosis Support Group of Nigeria in Lagos.
Narrating her ordeal with the ailment that has plagued her since her boarding school days in England, the mother of two said, ‘I have lived with endometriosis since the age of 13. I was sent to boarding school in England when I was seven years old. It was during the first few days in secondary school that I began my (menstrual) periods.
‘They called the ambulance and I was hospitalized for 10 days because the pain started and wouldn’t stop. I thought I was going to die, the first two days I was in the infirmary with the matron and she kept saying, ‘O Adenike, we understand that you miss your home, we understand that it is difficult for you, we understand that every girl must go through it but just bear it.’
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