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Welcome back to Me Too Daily.
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I'm Jenny. I'm Alejandro,
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and we're not here right now.
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We are recorded. Yes,
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recorded. I'm on my way to Coachella and I'm probably in
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Guadalajara eating a torda right now.
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But we had an amazing interview with our girl Grecia Lopez.
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I love Grecia, dude.
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I was like happy to actually meet her in person because we
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talked multiple times virtually because she's in Miami,
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but she came in that coast to coast.
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She came into the studio and it was Liddy and it was
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a good combo. It was.
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You guys are definitely gonna wanna check it out here it is
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Please help me welcome Grecia Lopez to meet you daily.
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finally to be killing it.
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Congratulations. Thank you,
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you inspire me a lot.
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Miss Miami is in the house,
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but also LA LA in coastal.
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We're, we're, we're doing it.
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By coastal mommy. So how are you doing these days?
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As you know, I mean,
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I last time I saw you we were in Miami.
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Now we're in LA this week doing a few projects,
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but everything's good. Everything's going really well.
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Today I woke up pretty excited.
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Because we're here to talk about something important that's near and dear
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to my heart that I have fought in my mental space whether
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if I want to be more open about it or if I
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want to like keep it private.
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I'm finally getting to that end of the tunnel where I see
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the light and I say,
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you know what, let me talk about this.
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Well, let's get right into it.
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Let's do it. Grecia,
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a couple of months ago I actually saw you shared a video
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about being born without.
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MRKH syndrome. MRKH.
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Yes. So for those of you that don't know what MRKH
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is, which is totally OK,
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it's not something we're taught in health class.
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It stands for the Mayor Roetowskyussterhauser syndrome.
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So why is it so long?
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It's actually the last names of the doctors that were able to
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basically diagnose women that were born without a uterus.
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Which it happens to 1 in 5000 women.
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And lucky me, I'm 1 in 5000 that were born without
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a uterus. Being born without a uterus as a woman,
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I know what that means.
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But for those who may not know,
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first of all, no period,
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period. So we don't get diagnosed until we're supposed to be
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around the age of like puberty where it's like you're in health
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class and they're like,
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oh, women, you know,
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you're gonna get your cycle soon.
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This is what you should do,
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My all my girlfriends are like,
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I got my, which I'm sure it's like one of those
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vital moments as a woman where you remember I do like very
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distinctly. It's starting,
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you know, it's starting.
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Everyone's some of my best friends in high school are getting their
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period and I'm like it's not it's not happenings happening to the
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point where my mom was like,
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you would be the first person I would tell.
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Yeah yeah yeah. So then it got to the point where
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my mom took me to the doctor during high school and the
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doctor was like, Well,
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are you sexually active?
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because I don't want to do a whole pap smear.
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not yet. And he's like,
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Well then maybe you're a late bloomer,
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don't worry about it.
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I was on a dance team,
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so the doctor that could affect your period the doctor was later
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because you're an athlete and technically,
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you know, don't worry about it.
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Yet then I turned 1718.
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I have my first moment with the guy and it was so
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painful to the point where you're like,
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wait, they always say your first name is painful.
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It's not supposed to be sunshine,
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rainbows, and dolphins.
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So then I go to the doctor and then the doctor was
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like, OK, let's do a pelvic ultrasound and that's where
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everything came about where it was like.
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A typical pelvic ultrasound of a woman,
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you see uterus, fallopian tubes,
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vaginal canal. For me,
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for women with MRKH,
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there's nothing, there's nothing,
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literally nothing. If anything,
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what, what I have inside,
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it's just like an underdeveloped uterus,
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It stayed small I never fully.
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Developed. So the obvious is like,
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OK, you can't get pregnant at the time,
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mind you, I was a freshman in college.
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I was like, no Plan B for me,
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no birth control. We are locked in and loaded.
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at that moment I'm in college.
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I wanna be a reporter like having a baby at 2021,
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I was like, hell no.
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oh. Now at 30 is when I'm really like,
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oh sh. If I want to be a mom one day
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like this is gonna be expensive,
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mentally draining, emotionally draining.
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Will I meet someone that will fall in love knowing that I
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Technically, like I can't,
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I can't conceive and not to mention as a Latina that can't
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get pregnant and you share it with your family and I remember
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sharing it with my grandmother and my grandma was like,
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bamosamisairesarios and I'm like,
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do you not understand that it's not a religion thing or like
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it's just like one day a miracle can happen.
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So there was a moment where I was like,
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you know what, let me start a YouTube page because I
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want to be a reporter.
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I'm in college. let me practice my public speaking skills.
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So I started a YouTube called Born Without a Uterrus,
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and the videos did really well.
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It was like 10,000 views,
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comments were everywhere, and then I found myself really building like
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a community online, but the comments got to me.
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The comments were awful.
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What type of comments were you seeing?
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Girl, if you don't have a uterus,
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but there's also the comments where it was like,
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Like what does it look like down there?
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Are you deformed down there?
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And I kept explaining like,
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guys, for the million time it's an internal organ.
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And then I just stopped because I was like,
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these comments are crazy.
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It's playing with my mental health and also in the world of
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media where this was circa 2020,
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in the world of media where it's like.
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You really didn't back then want to share anything personal that made
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you unique in this content space.
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Now I'm like, I'm back,
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baby. And when it comes to exploring options,
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having MRKH, what are those options?
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What do they look like?
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I know you said expensive.
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One, first and foremost,
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what I do want to share is that there are different types
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of MRKH. There's MRKH Type 1 and there's MRKH Type 2
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I have MRH type one.
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So MRKHy one, it's when intercourse is painful.
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There is an absence of a vaginal canal and the depth and
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the width. This is a little TMI,
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but we're going to get raw and real.
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No, we need to hear it.
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When we have intercourse and you have a short vaginal canal,
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it's painful in the sense that like it doesn't go all the
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way in. So that's why it's like super painful because they're
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they're hitting a wall,
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essentially. So you're like,
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wait. Like this is not pleasurable.
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and it's just not you know because sometimes guys don't,
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they don't know how to act down there,
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but it's it's physically impossible.
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However, there are options.
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One is you get dilators.
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You go to the gynecologists,
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they give you dilators size by size,
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so you can slowly yourself massage it for it to expand because
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it's tissue, so it expands.
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So that's the same tissue that expands when you give birth to
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So then the other option is reconstructive surgery.
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you get surgery, they open up,
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they build you a vaginal canal,
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so you can have regular intercourse,
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or, which is what the doctor told me,
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if you really have a partner that you trust,
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is patient. And wants to really figure this out with you
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just explore, be patient.
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It'll mold to his fitting.
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OK, let me figure this out,
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and we figured it out.
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Hey, I love to hear that,
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and we figured it out and it's,
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it's been a, it's been a journey and I think it
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was also like the most like,
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OK, a lot of people say,
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oh my God, when you're sleeping with somebody and you're having
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intercourse, that's like the most vulnerable,
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one of the most vulnerable positions that you can be with in
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with anybody. I beg to differ.
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I think the most vulnerable position you could be with somebody is
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when you guys are sleeping together,
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like actually sleeping, just like,
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just like dreaming, sleeping,
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maybe holding hand, I don't know.
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So there was a moment where I was like,
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I can just, I just felt my body letting loose and
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accepting this person. I was like,
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wait, like holy cow.
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It was like a really like an out of body experience where
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It wasn't painful. It was very soft.
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It was very genuine,
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wait a minute. And you'll probably watch this like,
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Hey, I'm applauding you and this connection.
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Yeah, but it's also a big reason why I decided to
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like not really continue doing the content because I did stop because
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it was like those comments that were really getting to me.
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When you bring up these comments and this type of ignorance and
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lack of knowledge. I can't help but think it goes back
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to what we are taught in health class.
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What is something you wish you would have learned at a younger
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age when it comes to your woman's health?
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What we should be taught is about infertility because I see people
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talk about women's health.
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and stuff and they say it.
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Every woman gets a period and every woman goes through this and
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every woman goes through PMS.
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and that's a big thing that I get asked too like,
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OK, so if you don't have a period,
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like, do you ever get mad?
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Are you ever in a bad mood?
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Girl, I to this day I don't really know.
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I hope these conversations and research when it comes to women's health
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and fertility keeps expanding because they truly are like really important
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conversations to have, especially within our community,
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as you know this conversation is a taboo topic,
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but we're. Kind of fighting to to normalize it again to
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reclaim the narrative and Grecia,
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I, I truly do appreciate you joining us and being vulnerable
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This isn't easy to talk about.
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thank you for sharing your story.
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Thank you and I appreciate for you guys reaching out and giving
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me that confidence boost it's like,
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no, this is important come use your voice and amplify.
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Grecia, and not only are you sharing your,
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we admire you as a journalist,
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as a content creator.
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love, and look up to everything you do.
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So thank you. It was such a great time to be
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able to sit by you and,
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and do this in front of a camera because we've done this
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before in private. Thank you,
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appreciate it. Thank you guys,
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and we were cry like that.
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I I had a tear it out.
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Can I give you a hug to close this out.
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Not every woman has a period,
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OK? Stop saying every woman has a period because we don't
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You know, we love you here.
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Where can the rest of our me too audience find you on
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social? Yeah, if you guys want to learn more about
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infertility or see whatever I'm up to,
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it's at Greciaes Lopez.
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