- Stephanie Coker has once again opened up on her battle with PCOS and some of the struggles she has faced because of her condition.
- Revealing how severe her condition is, the OAP stated that hers is life-threatening.
- Stephanie Coker also disclosed that she became suicidal after her second IVF failed.
Nigerian television presenter and filmmaker Stephanie Coker Aderinokun has opened up on her struggle with Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and how it affected her.
In a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Coker spoke about the life-threatening nature of her PCOS diagnosis.
In her words:
“I didn’t have a period for a whole year. I didn’t bleed. PCOS made me choose IVF. Mine was very severe and my doctors told me that it was life-threatening. I even ended up in a wheelchair and I was vomiting blood.”
She spoke about how she conceived her first child, Ariella, via IVF and her attempt to conceive a second child via that same route.
According to her, she spent over $40,000 and had traveled to Los Angeles for an IVF operation last year, which unfortunately failed. She further disclosed that after the failed IVF she called her friend stating that she felt the baby rejected her.
Coker told Jideonwo that she felt very rejected after the failed IVF and even suicidal, confessing that she once contemplated stepping in front of a moving car. Stephanie Coker said:
“I got pregnant and had my first child on the first IVF but the second one failed and I actually wanted to stand in front of a car and let the car hit me. My daughter wants a sibling. I’m not getting back on that flight with no baby. I called my friend and told her ‘I don’t think the child liked me. It didn’t stay,'”
Coker is a known advocate for PCOS awareness and also released a film called “Where The Heck is My Period?” a documentary chronicling the daily lives of Nigerian women living with Polycystic ovarian syndrome. The documentary featured interviews with gynaecologists, religious leaders, public figures, and native African doctors.
Watch a clip from the interview below: