The “Envolver” singer was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2022 after struggling with recurring pain from sex.
“Every time I had sex with the more well-endowed guy, I couldn’t even walk the next day or 48 hours later from so much pain,” she wrote in Portuguese on X (formerly Twitter) at the time. “So obviously in these 9 years of struggle I went through was people telling me the same things… and nothing to resolve it.”
It wasn’t until Anitta (real name Larissa de Macedo Machado) met a “guardian angel” doctor, who found discovered that the pain was related to endometriosis.
“Lack of hygiene? No. Lack of a condom? No. Lack of water? No,” she recalled of previous diagnoses from other doctors. “Lack of thoroughly researching all the variables that each body can respond to an anomaly with? YES.”
“Endometriosis is very common among women. It has various side effects, in different ways for each body,” Anitta added. “It’s not normal for us to live with this pain like this forever.”
