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Lupita Nyong’o Advocates for Uterine Health Legislation After Revealing Fibroids Diagnosis
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUL 15 – Lupita Nyong'o and Senator Alsobrooks advocate for bipartisan bill and research grant to address uterine fibroids affecting 15 million Americans, focusing on early detection and less invasive treatments.
- Oscar-Winning actress Lupita Nyong'o revealed in a July 15, 2025 Instagram post that she was diagnosed with uterine fibroids in 2014 and is now advocating for uterine health legislation.
- Nyong'o spent over a decade suffering in silence after discovering 30 non-cancerous fibroids and facing limited options of invasive surgery or living with pain.
- She is working alongside U.S. Congresswomen to propose four bills focused on boosting financial support for research, enhancing early diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids, investigating the origins of uterine cancer, and promoting greater public education about fibroids.
- Nyong'o stated, "We deserve better" and envisions a future with early education, better screening, robust research, and less invasive fibroid treatments, emphasizing rejection of normalizing female pain.
- This legislative push highlights the high fibroid prevalence, especially in Black women, and aims to improve uterine health research and care nationally.
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Actress Lupita Nyong'o revealed that she was diagnosed with 30 uterine fibroids in 2014 and had to undergo surgery to remove them. She's helping to raise awareness about uterine health by introducing legislation in the Capitol that would also help fund research.
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Lupita Nyong’o is turning her pain into purpose. When attending the 2014 Oscars, everything appeared to be magical for the Hollywood star as she accepted the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in 12 Years a Slave. But more than a decade later, Nyong’o revealed that months after winning the coveted award, she discovered she had uterine fibroids. “30 fibroids. I had surgery to remove them,” she shared via Instagram in …
Actress Lupita Nyong’o joins lawmakers to advocate for uterine fibroid research
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Lupita Nyong'o Opens Up About Her Painful, Chronic Uterine Fibroids Battle
The actress revealed she'd felt "dismissed" and "alone" while speaking out about the debilitating condition.Getty Images Lupita Nyong'o at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars Party on March 2The GistLupita Nyong'o broke her silence on her decade-long health issues for the first time in a candid post shared on Tuesday, July 15.The 12 Years a Slave actress revealed that she was battling painful uterine fibroids, and had to get surgery to remove 30 of the …
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