Former Big Brother Naija All Stars contestant Uriel Oputa has shared her four-year struggle with amenorrhea, a condition characterized by the absence of menstruation during reproductive years. The 35-year-old revealed that this health challenge was one of the most difficult times in her life, recalling that doctors even suggested that she might not be able to have children.
Uriel opened up about this during a recent conversation with media personality Hero Daniels. She detailed her experience, saying, “Before I decided to embark on a health journey, I had health challenges. One of them was that I didn’t see my period for four years. And I remember going to the doctors in the UK, and they told me that there was a high possibility that I would never be able to have children. That time, my niece was two years old and I remember leaving the office thinking, ‘Oh! I will never be able to have a child.”
She continued, “I went into a state of depression. I was so depressed that I couldn’t watch kids on TV. I hated going past schools or parks because I would be reminded constantly that I may not be able to be a mother. So, it reached a point where I said, ‘Okay, if I can’t be a mother, I would have my niece as mine.’ And that is why, till today, we [my niece and I] are very close because she looks at me as a second mother.”