When Beverley Knight noticed a huge swelling in her stomach, she thought she might have been pregnant.
But she was in fact experiencing symptoms of fibroids - benign growths that lined the superstar's uterus. It is a condition that despite being one of the biggest concerns in women's health and one that disproportionately affects Black women, little is known about the cause.
They can grow to the size of a full-term pregnancy and one expert says he has removed a fibroid that weighed 5kg from one of his patients.
