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Stacey Solomon calls for better research into women’s health after ‘scary’ smear test results-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
‘We’re not really educated about what it actually means to have an ‘abnormal’ smear, which is a problem in itself.’
The TV star revealed her own medical history (Picture: S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock)
Stacey Solomon has called for more research into women’s health after she received ‘scary’ smear test results.
The 33-year-old TV presenter thinks more needs to be done following the death of Jade Goody, who died from cervical cancer aged 27 in 2009, because she believes women haven’t been educated enough about what it means to have an ‘abnormal smear’.
She also questioned the fact that a doctor wasn’t able to ‘give her an answer’ when she asked a related question about her mutated cells while pregnant with her youngest son.
‘It’s not easy being a woman. Years ago, I had an abnormal smear test and it really scared me.
‘I think because of what happened with Jade [Goody] we’re not really educated about what it actually means to have an ‘abnormal’ smear, which is a problem in itself,’ she said in a new interview.
Stacey, who’s mum to Zachary, 14, Leighton, 10, Rex, three, and 14-month-old Rose, has also told how a doctor even admitted to her once that there ‘isn’t enough research into women’s health’.
Stacey recalled a doctor telling her he didn’t know the answer due to lack of research (Picture: Mario Mitsis/Backgrid)
She added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘But I remember, later, when I was pregnant with Rex in 2019, asking my doctor if when my cervix stretched while giving birth it would affect any mutated cells.
‘And his reply was, “I’ll be honest with you, we don’t know. There just isn’t enough research into women’s health – nobody’s tested that out.”’
The Loose Women star, who went hard in on Christmas by putting up her tree six weeks before the day itself, said that it ‘seemed mad’ the doctor couldn’t answer her question as ‘since the beginning of time we’ve been giving birth and had cervixes’.
She’s calling for more women in senior healthcare positions, and says there’s started to be a change (Picture: ITV)
Stacey has started to question what it is that means research isn’t being done into women’s bodies, as she called for more female to be put in senior healthcare positions.
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She reasoned that if people ‘at the top’ aren’t bothered then ‘it won’t filter down so research can help the people at the bottom’.
The former X Factor star and singer branded the whole situation ‘sad and scary’, but said she also felt hopeful that things were changing, with women starting to become ‘bigger voice across all areas, be that politics, healthcare, or anything else’.
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