TRUE-LIFE
Sitting in the clinic next to my mum Kim, then 38, I felt her squeeze my hand.
Then the doc dealt a devastating blow.
‘You were born without a uterus,’ he said.
Mum gasped, I blinked back tears.
Inside, where my womb should be, was just an empty space…
It was called MayerRokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, and was so rare no one knew what caused it.
It was 2002, I was only 14.
Mum had taken me to the docs because I’d not started my period.
Now I was being told that while I had ovaries and could produce eggs, there was nowhere for them to go.
My body would reabsorb them.
