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  • 7 months ago
Editor Victoria Uwumarogie chats with Coach Gessie Thompson and Dr. Andrea Alexander about fibroids.
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00:00it's it's that taboo right victoria that it's like it's below the belt it's a woman issue you
00:05don't get to talk about it no we need to proclaim it and we're you know we're changing that paradigm
00:09and we're saying no we're talking about it because we're not going to end up dying on the other end
00:14because we're so anemic we're having a heart attack okay or we're developing a blood clot
00:18because you know of the fact that the fibroid is pressing on blood vessels that are now causing me
00:24to have a blood clot that now i can literally die just like that so it's it and it goes to the fact
00:29that we have to center and that's why i love essence center ourselves center black women
00:36center those things that are important for us as black girls turning into black women right because
00:43when we say it becomes a conversation that is just part of the norm part of the norm right that your
00:49your cycle something you're gonna have or not we're not waiting
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