Overview

• During Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month, Nyong’o revealed her decade-long struggle with 30 fibroids first diagnosed in 2014 and the chronic pain she endured believing it was normal
• She partnered with the Foundation for Women’s Health to establish the FWH x Lupita Nyong’o research scholarship funding studies on early detection and less invasive treatments
• The actress met with U.S. legislators to advance a bipartisan legislative package that would boost federal research funding, enhance detection protocols and broaden public education on uterine fibroids
• Uterine fibroids affect up to 80 percent of women of reproductive age, disproportionately impact Black women and often go under-researched and under-discussed
• Nyong’o’s advocacy challenges the normalization of menstrual pain and calls for uterine fibroids to be treated as a national women’s health priority