Elen Wyn is known for being a Welsh opera singer and rose to fame as a faithful on the hit BBC show last January but has now opened up about her health battles
The Traitors star Elen Wyn has shared that she has two wombs and two cervixes, as well as battling endometriosis. The 25-year-old has opened up about what she has gone through in a recent interview.
The Welsh opera singer is best known for starring on hit BBC show The Traitors, where she was a loyal and faithful. She explained that she pushed the doctors for an endometriosis diagnosis, but that was when doctors found something far from what they were expecting.
Elen said she struggled with the healthcare system before finally receiving a diagnosis in 2024, as she said sometimes the pain she experiences is so bad that she can’t walk and feels like she’s being stabbed.
Endometriosis is a condition where endometrial tissue, tissue similar to the uterine lining, grows outside of the uterus, such as on the cervix, bladder, and ovaries, where it collects and thickens over the course of every menstrual cycle.
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Elen spoke about the condition and what she has been through on the It’s Not JUST a Period! podcast, she said: “She [the doctor] was asking me questions like ‘Oh so you only have one kidney?’ and I was like ‘Are you joking?!’ She just assumed I knew.
“And then I had an internal ultrasound, and she couldn’t locate my cervix, and she got so confused, and she had to ask someone else to come in. I was terrified.” Elen was then referred by doctors to go for an MRI scan.
They found that she only had one kidney but had two wombs and two cervixes. She then went to a gynaecologist, where a doctor created a diagram with a pen and paper so she could visualise her anatomy.
Elen said that despite only having one fallopian tube and one ovary attached to each womb, both of them are functioning and she will be able to carry a child when she chooses. Elen also only has one period despite having two cervixes and two wombs.
The singer is grateful that she found out about her “abnormal anatomy”, as otherwise she wouldn’t have also got her endometriosis diagnosis. Elen first went to the doctors about the pain she was experiencing when she was 14.
However, they didn’t offer much help as the doctor told Elen that what she was going through was “normal” and that she just had a “low pain tolerance” that she needed to work on.
After learning about endometriosis online, Elen moved to Cardiff and, after requesting a female GP, was eventually referred to a specialist. However, Elen is still waiting for her laparoscopy to remove the endometriosis.
She initially waited nine months for a referral before going back to her GP, where she found out she’d never been referred in the first place, which means she is back at the bottom of the waiting list.
Source: Mirror
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