Fitness queen Kayla Itsines reveals her secret battle with endometriosis

Kayla Itsines has spoken candidly about her battle with endometriosis in a new interview for this month’s issue of Australian Women’s Health magazine.

Speaking to the publication, the 29-year-old celebrity fitness trainer revealed she was forced to undergo recent surgery for the condition.  

‘I had so many cysts burst in the 12 months leading up to that surgery,’ she said in the magazine’s latest issue, as reported by The Daily Telegraph. 

‘I was just glad to have my body back – just internally to feel like it’s my body again. I got my first period which was a lot lighter – it wasn’t an ice pack here and a heat pack there and needing to sit on the shower floor. There wasn’t that big drama.’

Kayla added that she’s now in less pain as a result of the surgery, and added: ‘It’s just different, it’s way better.’

Endometriosis is a condition where the tissue that lines the inside of a woman’s uterus grows on the outside. 

It often causes severe pain, menstrual irregularities and can lead to infertility, and it’s sometimes treated with surgery. 

The multimillionaire is a mum to a two-year-old daughter, Arna, who she shares with her ex-fiancé, Tobi Pearce. 

Kayla previously spoke about her battle with endometriosis in an open editorial for Cosmopolitan magazine in March.  

‘Every month I still suffered debilitating cramps, nausea, and heavy bleeding,’ she said at the time.

‘What used to be several excruciating but bearable days each month turned into cancelling plans with friends and family and missing work. 

‘When my period arrived, all I could do was lie in bed and wait for it to be over.’