02/19/2026
Today is international MRKH day. A day that is very important to me. (Alongside my baby sisters birthday).
Today is about a diagnosis that changed my life when I was 17. MRKH Syndrome.
No uterus. Never would have a period. Never would carry a baby. There was no way to talk about the future because it felt the future I once knew had been robbed from me in every way. My greatest dream, to be a mom….was ripped out of my hands.
I remember the exact feelings I felt in that doctors office that day. November 19th 2019.
Utter embarrassment. Pure shock. Feeling so unloveable and so disgusted with myself. The complexities of such a diagnosis stirring a dark mental spiral that would take over my life for years. MRKH almost took my life from me. My sense of identity. Everything. Was gone.
It was so easy to feel less than. Especially in a world that categorized women by pregnancy, periods, s*x, all of it. It was so easy to believe I’d never be considered a “whole woman”.
I’d never experienced grief like that. Grief in so many forms I didn’t know existed. The silent mourning as a pregnant woman walks by. Crying after the hangouts when everyone was telling their first period story. Hearing & seeing the pregnancy announcements. The thought of being a mom hurt too much to think about. This was supposed to be simple, attainable. This was supposed to be easy. Why did this happen to me?
There are days I still wrestle with the pain. Some days are harder than others. But on days like today I believe it’s important to celebrate MRKH. Because though it took so much from me, in the last few years I have been able to reclaim everything that was once taken.
A sense of self identity, strength, and womanhood, that I truly believed I didn’t deserve to feel for a long time. And in this last year, I’ve been able to grow alongside thousands of incredibly strong MRKHers that I never knew existed. Which is something to be celebrated. Though we aren’t the majority, there is still many, and I will do everything in my power to make every single one feel seen.
Happy international MRKH day friends. YOU are loved🤍💌