Sierra Teller Ornelas

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871 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 28 Apr

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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast · Lena Dunham’s Memoir Famesick (with Sierra Teller Ornelas and Brian Bahe) · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

It's a genetic collagen disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

And again, too much to go over in one podcast, but she literally, while she's dealing with all of these crazy issues with her endometriosis and her loved ones are sort of still holding on that she's going to get better, she's so afraid to get diagnosed with this new thing because she's like, I can't bring this new diagnosis, even though I definitely have this thing, to my loved ones.

And it just...

It's so awful.

That's crazy.

So it all kind of culminates in this moment.

And she says,

hoped and unhoped things would change until one day in November, after I'd run out of healthy things to try during my autumn of health, my mother and I marched right into Lenox Hill emergency room and announced I wasn't leaving until they took my uterus.

No, really, take her.

And she had written an article in the New York Times about this when she was talking about her endometriosis.

And so I'd heard the story previously, but she... And I've had friends who also have wanted to have hysterectomies who are just refused.

In the medical industry, she says, like I said before...

Their goal had been to preserve my fertility.

That was what they had considered their primary job.

And there's so many doctors who refuse to give women under 30 a hysterectomy because they believe, like, eventually you're going to want to have kids.

There's a lot of fear of being sued.

But she basically refuses to leave the hospital.

She stays there for 15 days, has to get approval with, like, a therapist note and to see another doctor and gets approval to actually have it removed.

And and it's just it's such a crazy harrowing moment in the book.

And you're just like so with her and you're so sick for her.

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