The Bulgarian-born Valentina Milanova, who featured in Forbes’ 2023 30 under 30 list, has opened up about her childhood ordeal with an undiagnosed condition that had her menstruating three years earlier than the average female.
To make matters worse, she knew nothing about the monthly cycle, nor that it visited regularly for the better part of a healthy woman’s life, and aside from being embarrassed, the 9-year-old believed she was slowly succumbing to some terrible disease.
She was not incorrect for thinking there was something wrong with her. But for all their knowledge, doctors misunderstood her situation to the point that they thought she was pregnant.
