Two things changed Lupita Nyong’o’s life in 2014. She won an Academy Award and she was diagnosed with uterine fibroids.

“What should have been a milestone of joy was overshadowed by confusion, pain and fear,” the actress said at a bipartisan roundtable at the Capitol on Tuesday. “I was told I had nearly 30 fibroids and that my only options were to live with debilitating pain and discomfort or undergo invasive surgery.”

She was told there was little she could do to prevent them from growing back.

Nyong’o had surgery, but she was still nagged by a feeling that there should’ve been more options for a disease that affects 26 million women in the United States. And 11 years later, when told her fibroids had grown again, she was presented with the same limited treatment options.

Nyong’o was

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