Florence Pugh has revealed she was told she would have to freeze her eggs at the age of just 27, after being diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and endometriosis.
The actress, 28, admitted it was a ‘mind-boggling realisation’ when she was told she would have to ‘get her eggs out quickly’ to preserve hopes of having a child in the future.
Speaking to Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi – also known as Dr A – and Mary Alice Haney, on Dear Media’s SHE MD podcast, Florence explained: ‘I had this sudden feeling that I should go and get everything checked. I’d had a few weird dreams, I think my body was telling me.’
Florence shared that she met with Dr A, and said: ‘She asked if I’d ever had an egg count done and I was like, ”No what do you mean? I’m so young. Why do I need an egg count?”’
After undergoing an egg count, Florence was told by Dr A that she had PCOS and endometriosis.
Florence Pugh, 28, has revealed she was told she would have to freeze her eggs at the age of just 27, after being diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and endometriosis
She continued: ‘It was just so bizarre because my family are baby-making machines. My mom had babies into her forties.
‘My gran had babies throughout … And then of course, I learned completely different information, at age 27, that I need to get my eggs out, and do it quickly, which was just a bit of a mind-boggling realisation, and one that I’m really lucky and glad that I found out when I did because I’ve been wanting kids since I was a child.’
PCOS is a common condition that means the ovaries do not regularly release eggs, become enlarged, and can contain small follicle cysts.,
The ovaries also produces excess androgen, which can cause irregular periods, excess hair growth, acne and infertility.
Endometriosis, which affects one in ten women, develops when tissue that lines the womb grows in other parts of the body. It can cause bleeding, inflammation and, if left untreated, can lead to infertility.
Florence went onto admit that she’d heard of PCOS but ‘didn’t think that it was something that is common. I really just thought that it was something that you’d feel and that you’d know you had and that it wasn’t really a worry.’
The Little Women star added: ‘And then of course you find out you do have it, and you realize you have to change your lifestyle, you have to be proactive and think ahead into the future.
‘I think [for] lots of young women, that’s not really necessarily what you’re thinking of doing when you’re In your 20s.’
The actress (pictured in her new film We Live In Time) admitted it was a ‘mind-boggling realisation’ when she was told she would have to ‘get her eggs out quickly’
In recent weeks, Florence has been on a promotional tour alongside Andrew Garfield for their new film We Live In Time.
Speaking ahead of its release, Andrew told of how the pair got a little carried away during a ‘very intimate, passionate sex scene’ because they didn’t hear a call of ‘cut’ from the crew.
During an appearance on the 92nd Street in New York City last week, he told the crowd: ‘The scene becomes passionate, as we choreographed it.
‘And we get into it as it were, and we go a little bit further than we were meant to because we didn’t hear ‘cut’ and it’s feeling safe. And we’re just kinda like, ‘Ok, we’ll just go into the next thing, we’ll let this progress, and we’ll just carry on.”
‘At a certain point, both of us, we’re both kind of telepathically saying to each other, ‘This definitely feels like a longer take.’
‘I look up, and in the corner is Stuart and our boom operator. Stuart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall.’
We Live In Time follows the unconventional love story of a recent divorcée and an on-the-rise chef.
The first trailer sees Almut and Tobias brought together in a surprise meeting that changes their lives forever.
Through snapshots of their life together – including falling for each other, creating a home and building a family – a difficult truth is uncovered that rocks the relationship’s foundation to the core.
As they embark on a 10-year romance that is challenged by time limits, they learn to treasure every moment of their unconventional love story.
Florence’s costar Andrew posed with a life-size cutout of her at the screening at the BFI London Film Festival last month.
The actor, 41, was in good spirits as he joked and played around on the red carpet, moving the cardboard cutout and striking silly poses.
The hilarious stunt comes after the pair revealed they went ‘further than they were meant to’ while filming sex scenes.
Speaking ahead of its release on October 11, Andrew told of how the pair got a little carried away during a ‘very intimate, passionate sex scene’ because they didn’t hear a call of ‘cut’ from the crew.
During an appearance on the 92nd Street Y in New York City, he told the crowd: ‘The scene becomes passionate, as we choreographed it.
‘And we get into it as it were, and we go a little bit further than we were meant to because we didn’t hear ‘cut’ and it’s feeling safe. And we’re just kinda like, ‘Ok, we’ll just go into the next thing, we’ll let this progress, and we’ll just carry on.”
