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class="content__text" TOWIE's Chloe Brockett was recently diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and opened up on her Insta stories about living with the condition. She told her followers: "I always had quite bad periods, they were really heavy, even when I was younger I would miss days off school for them because I would be exhausted and in so much pain, it really affected me. I remember going to the doctors when I was around 13 and they suggested I go on the contraceptive pill, so I did. "I wasn't sleeping with anyone, I was 13, it was unnecessary to be putting all those hormones in my body but to be honest they did mask the symptoms and make my periods regular and made life easier for me. So fast forward to last year, I ran out of my pill and I noticed that I had gained a lot of weight when I was filming Celebs Go Dating and for me I'm always a consistent weight, I'm always the same size and shape." Chloe explained how she decided to stop taking the contraceptive pill, but said she instantly regretted it as her periods returned more aggressively. She said: "My periods returned to the way when I was younger, it was horrific and they still are. The symptoms and all of the bad side effects, my periods were still there, it had just been masked for 10 years because I'd been taking the contraceptive pill. I'm glad I'm off it now as I don't want to put those hormones in my body but now I'm stuck with the bad side of polycystic ovaries. The periods are absolutely awful, I'm exhausted and I get facial hair, like peach fuzz on my face. The peach fuzz on my face doesn't bother me, but what does bother me is the horrific periods." Send Chloe some love by putting a ❤ in the comments. 📸: @chloebrockett #ChloeBrockett #PolycysticOvarySyndrome #PCOS #LivingWithPCOS #LivingWithPolycysticOvarySyndrome #PolycysticOvarianSyndrome #Period #Periods #TOWIE #TheOnlyWayIsEssex #TOWIEStars #TheOnlyWayIsEssexStars #PCOSAwareness #PolycysticOvaryAwareness

February 14, 2023