Bindi Irwin opens up to PEOPLE about having 'beautiful daughter' Grace amid her diagnosis of endometriosis. The nature conservationist shares her daughter with husband Chandler Powell.
After discussing how painful it is to be asked if she's going to have more kids, Irwin reveals to PEOPLE why that question can be so hurtful. "I feel like it is a universal question for women, which is heartbreaking because you never know what's going on in someone's life and what's happening behind closed doors," she says.to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
"And someone asking you, 'Why aren't you having more children? It's your responsibility to have more children.' It breaks your heart because we all have a different journey and a different story." "For us personally, we feel so lucky to have Grace," Irwin tells PEOPLE. "I think that every day I wake up and I look at our beautiful daughter and think she is our tiny little miracle and it makes me cry because we were very, very lucky to have her."
"And there was every chance that we wouldn't have been able to have a little one, so to have our beautiful girl, we are so lucky. And I wish more people would pause before asking, 'Why aren't you having more children?'"spent several years dealing with excruciating fatigue, pain and nausea as she saw specialists“I was tested for everything,” Irwin tells PEOPLE. “Every tropical disease, Lyme disease, cancer, you name it. I had every blood test and scan imaginable.
“It’s so hard because you feel like it’s inescapable,” she says. “You don’t know what’s wrong with you, and then when people tell you ‘It’s all in your head’ or ‘you’re hormonal’ or ‘just have a cup of tea, lay down,’ you end up feeling so desperately alone because there’s no answers.”
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