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Top Chef Host Padma Lakshmi Cried After Winning MAJOR Award
Padma Lakshmi and Olivia Culpo are utilizing their platforms to speech astir an important topic.
The Top Chef host and the former Miss Universe, who have been candid about their journeys with endometriosis, are giving much details astir their experiences successful hopes of helping others.
"What I privation that everyone knew is that it's a illness that isn't preventable, but treatable," Lakshmi exclusively told E! News astatine the 11th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America's Blossom Ball successful New York connected March 20. "The sooner you person it addressed and get treatment, the much apt you are to sphere your fertility and pb a much mean life. Often women don't get diagnosed for a full decade, and that means they're suffering each month, each year, until they get the diagnosis they need."
After decades of experiencing symptoms, the Taste the Nation creator, who is the foundation's cofounder, was diagnosed with endometriosis astatine property 36. Looking backmost astatine these years, Lakshmi, present 52, revealed the proposal she would springiness herself then.
"It would beryllium to get checked by a specialist," the Bravo star, who was joined astatine the lawsuit by her 13-year-old daughter Krishna, shared, "and perceive to your body."
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It's a connection Culpo echoed.
"For a miss experiencing symptoms for the archetypal time, I'd conscionable accidental rally for yourself and advocator for your wellness and don't beryllium embarrassed to speech astir idiosyncratic issues with your healthcare provider," The Culpo Sisters star, who was honored with this year's Blossom Award, told E! News. "Because sometimes you're embarrassed to speech astir your period, I mean I get it!"
Culpo inactive remembers however she felt successful the aboriginal days of her endometriosis battle.
"I've had a agelong past with endometriosis, starting erstwhile I was a teenager," the 30-year-old shared. "I was truly timid and embarrassed to speech astir my period, and due to the fact that of that I was embarrassed to advocator for myself and it was precise isolating and excoriatingly painful."
Now, she's gladsome she spoke up for herself and that she's capable to assistance others bash the same.
"I emotion the enactment I tin bash present successful spreading consciousness and giving radical the assurance and the tools to get the assistance that they request and to retrieve to advocator for themselves," Culpo said. "It's thing I'm truly passionate about."
- Reporting by Jewels Tauzin
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