Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi shares major health update amidst her long battle with chronic disease
In a post on Instagram, Irwin went into detail about her years-long struggle and revealed that after her latest surgery she is 'finally' beginning to feel like she is 'healing' for the first time.
'51 endometriosis lesions, a cyst, and my appendix were all removed across two surgeries with @seckinmd. My hernia from giving birth that was unzipping – was taken care of. I can FINALLY say that I'm feeling better. Genuinely healing.'
5 Bindi Irwin shares an update on her battle with endometriosis.
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Irwin previously underwent emergency surgery in May, which meant she missed a gala honoring her late father.
'I can function in everyday life without wanting to throw up or pass out from the pain. Slowly, slowly gaining my strength back,' her latest post continued.
'I cannot express the gravity of my emotions as I am beginning to recognise myself again.
5 Irwin's emergency surgery in May led to her missing a gala honoring her late father.
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5 'I cannot express the gravity of my emotions as I am beginning to recognise myself again,' Irwin said about her recovery.
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'I felt utterly ashamed as a teenager and young adult being told that my pain was just part of being a woman.
'I felt lesser. I felt hurt. I felt weak. That is not OK.'
She concluded: 'Young girls and women shouldn't feel alone with pain in the driver's seat of their lives.
'We need to take away the stigma of talking about women's health. It's time to have open discussions and make change on a global scale.'
Last year, Irwin shared that she had been suffering for years with endometriosis.
Her story quickly resonated with hundreds of thousands of other Aussie women who had been struggling in silence.
5 The late Steve Irwin with daughter Bindi Irwin and 'Bazzle' the python snake at Australia Zoo.
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While she was nervous to open up publicly, she's now grateful she was brave enough to do so.
'It is scary when you open up about your most vulnerable and painful times, when you talk about when you felt you were sitting in a very large hole and didn't know if you were going to crawl out,' she told Courier Mail.
Before she shared her story, Irwin revealed that she struggled with people judging her without being aware of the battle she was fighting privately.
5 'It took me so long to talk about it, nobody knew what was happening to me except my mum (Terri Irwin), my brother Robert and my husband Chandler (Powell),' she said.
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'It took me so long to talk about it, nobody knew what was happening to me except my mum (Terri Irwin), my brother Robert and my husband Chandler (Powell).
'Everyone else thought I was becoming this flaky person because I would bow out of commitment after commitment at the last minute because I was in so much pain,' she added before explaining how uncomfortable she was with being asked when she planned on having more children.
'When I went through endo and people would ask, 'When are you and Chandler having another child?' I used to think, 'If you could see on the outside what it feels like on the inside you would never ask.' It would completely change the way you approach somebody.
'You know, some people don't want another child, some can't have another child, and some people have gone through enormous loss and heartbreak before they have their much wanted child.'
She then paused, before adding: 'I think you have to be kind in every part of life. If you have the urge to ask, take a second. If someone has good news to share, they'll share it.'
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