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Elen Wyn has previously called on the Welsh government to offer more funding, better information and greater sensitivity to women’s health<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Traitors star and Welsh opera singer Elen Wyn says she is “grateful to have an abnormal anatomy” as it ultimately led to her endometriosis diagnosis. <\/p>\n

Appearing on the podcast It’s Not JUST a Period!<\/a>, the 25-year-old from Anglesey said doctors discovered she had only one “abnormally big kidney… two wombs and two cervixes”.<\/p>\n

The condition, known as uterus didelphys, occurs when the uterus fails to fuse during development in the womb and it affects about 0.3% of women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This results in a double uterus, which may also have two cervixes and two vaginal canals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite living with the condition her whole life, the recent discovery has left Elen with “so many questions” such as “why do [both the wombs] bleed at the same time?”<\/p>\n

The star of The Traitors Series 3<\/a>, who was eliminated on episode two, previously told the BBC<\/a> that the pain she suffered was comparable to that of “barbed wire around her stomach”.<\/p>\n

When her periods began aged 14, she frequently missed school and sat out of sports because of her discomfort.<\/p>\n

During her 10-year wait for an endometriosis diagnosis, Elen, originally from Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, was regularly told it was “just a period”, that she had a low pain threshold and on one occasion, was laughed at by a GP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elen began suspecting she had endometriosis after watching other people talk about it on TikTok, yet the full extent of her complex condition came to light in a “terrifying” way.<\/p>\n

After her second ultrasound, a doctor assumed she knew she only had one kidney, which she did not. <\/p>\n

She was referred for an internal ultrasound and recalled feeling extremely anxious when a nurse couldn’t locate her cervix and more staff were called in for second opinions. <\/p>\n

“So many people were just looking at this screen inside of me and they just didn’t understand,” she said.<\/p>\n

At first, doctors denied she had endometriosis<\/a> – a condition where tissue similar to the womb’s lining grows elsewhere in the body – but told her that her anatomy looked “very different” and referred her for an urgent MRI scan. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When doctors were trying to make sense of her uterus didelphys, they questioned whether she had two periods a month, which she hadn’t.<\/p>\n

“They asked me ‘do you use tampons or pads?’ and I said both.<\/p>\n

“They asked me if I insert a tampon, do I continue to bleed, and I said no,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

“So it’s all normal except from my two wombs.”<\/p>\n

Elen admitted she was still baffled by the discovery, leaving her with “so many questions”.<\/p>\n

“What I don’t understand is if I have two wombs… why do they bleed at the same time?<\/p>\n

“Are they just in sync?<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of grateful that I do have an abnormal anatomy because otherwise I wouldn’t have found out I had stage 4 endometriosis.” <\/p>\n

After years of being made to feel dramatic and “constantly gaslit”, Elen said the diagnosis was something she “really needed”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What is uterus didelphys?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Uterus didelphys is a rare congenital condition that develops before birth, when the two tubes that normally form a single uterus fail to fuse properly.<\/p>\n

Instead, two separate wombs are created – each with its own cervix – and, in some cases, a double vaginal canal.<\/p>\n

People with a double uterus are at increased risk of miscarriage and preterm birth but can have healthy pregnancies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some symptoms include:<\/p>\n