{"id":239673,"date":"2025-11-02T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:50:10","slug":"the-traitors-star-elyn-wyn-grateful-for-abnormal-anatomy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239673\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors star Elyn Wyn grateful for ‘abnormal anatomy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lena-Zaharah MohammedBBC Wales<\/p>\n

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Elen has previously called on the Welsh government to offer more funding, better information and greater sensitivity to women’s health<\/p>\n

The Traitors star and Welsh opera singer Elen Wyn says she is “grateful to have an abnormal anatomy” as it ultimately led to her endometriosis diagnosis. <\/p>\n

Appearing on the podcast It’s Not JUST a Period!<\/a>, the 25-year-old from Anglesey said doctors discovered she had only one “abnormally big kidney… two wombs and two cervixes”.<\/p>\n

The condition, known as uterus didelphys, occurs when the uterus fails to fuse during development in the womb and it affects about 0.3% of women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This results in a double uterus, which may also have two cervixes and two vaginal canals.<\/p>\n

Despite living with the condition her whole life, the recent discovery has left Elen with “so many questions” such as “why do [both the wombs] bleed at the same time?”<\/p>\n

The star of The Traitors Series 3<\/a>, who was eliminated on episode two, previously told the BBC<\/a> that the pain she suffered was comparable to that of “barbed wire around her stomach”.<\/p>\n

When her periods began aged 14, she frequently missed school and sat out of sports because of her discomfort.<\/p>\n

During her 10-year wait for an endometriosis diagnosis, Elen, originally from Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, was regularly told it was “just a period”, that she had a low pain threshold and on one occasion, was laughed at by a GP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elen began suspecting she had endometriosis after watching other people talk about it on TikTok, yet the full extent of her complex condition came to light in a “terrifying” way.<\/p>\n

After her second ultrasound, a doctor assumed she knew she only had one kidney, which she did not. <\/p>\n

She was referred for an internal ultrasound and recalled feeling extremely anxious when a nurse couldn’t locate her cervix and more staff were called in for second opinions. <\/p>\n

“So many people were just looking at this screen inside of me and they just didn’t understand,” she said.<\/p>\n

At first, doctors denied she had endometriosis<\/a> – a condition where tissue similar to the womb’s lining grows elsewhere in the body – but told her that her anatomy looked “very different” and referred her for an urgent MRI scan. <\/p>\n

\"Endometriosis<\/p>\n

‘So many questions’<\/p>\n

When doctors were trying to make sense of her uterus didelphys, they questioned whether she had two periods a month, which she hadn’t.<\/p>\n

“They asked me ‘do you use tampons or pads?’ and I said both.<\/p>\n

“They asked me if I insert a tampon, do I continue to bleed, and I said no,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

“So it’s all normal except from my two wombs.”<\/p>\n

Elen admitted she was still baffled by the discovery, leaving her with “so many questions”.<\/p>\n

“What I don’t understand is if I have two wombs… why do they bleed at the same time?<\/p>\n

“Are they just in sync?<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of grateful that I do have an abnormal anatomy because otherwise I wouldn’t have found out I had stage 4 endometriosis.” <\/p>\n

After years of being made to feel dramatic and “constantly gaslit”, Elen said the diagnosis was something she “really needed”.<\/p>\n

What is uterus didelphys?<\/p>\n

Uterus didelphys is a rare congenital condition that develops before birth, when the two tubes that normally form a single uterus fail to fuse properly.<\/p>\n

Instead, two separate wombs are created – each with its own cervix – and, in some cases, a double vaginal canal.<\/p>\n

People with a double uterus are at increased risk of miscarriage and preterm birth but can have healthy pregnancies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some symptoms include:<\/p>\n

Pain during sexPainful cramping before and during your periodHeavy bleeding during your periodLeaking blood when using a tampon (tampon is only in one vaginal canal and not the other)Frequent miscarriagesPremature labour<\/p>\n

Now that Elen has received her diagnosis, she is waiting for a laparoscopy to surgically remove the endometriosis.<\/p>\n

After nine months believing she was on the waiting list, estimated to be six to eight months long, she asked for an update and discovered she was “never referred”.<\/p>\n

She has now been added to the list, but feels it means the clock has restarted in her bid to get the answers she needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lena-Zaharah MohammedBBC Wales BBC\/PA Elen has previously called on the Welsh government to offer more funding, better information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-239673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}