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Kiwi comedy queens ‘OUR OVARIES ARE OUR SECRET WEAPONS !’

It was in Year 6 that a devastated Angella Dravid rushed home from the swimming pool and grabbed her dad’s razor to shave her upper lip after she heard a cute guy declare, “That girl has a f***ing moustache!”Meanwhile, Brynley Stent recalls bursting into tears after being told she had an “incurable” condition that would likely require taking birth control pills for life. And Hayley Sproull remembers anxiously “shaving myself from head to toe” before her first sleepover with her fiancé Aaron Cortesi.

All regulars on the Kiwi comedy scene, the stars make a hilarious trio as they crack jokes during our shoot at Auckland’s Basement Theatre, but behind the gags lie years of insecurity, tears, mental struggles, fears and the frustrations of living with polycystic ovary

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