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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Madeleine Aggeler

Wait … can you get a hernia from wearing tight pants?

close up of a pair of hands trying to button jeans
Hernias are ‘very, very common’, says Dr Marcoandrea Giorgi. Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

On 14 July, actor and singer Suki Waterhouse shared a tweet explaining her recent absence from X: “‘suki you never tweet anymore’ have you ever considered I wore pants so tight 6 months ago it caused a hernia & I’ve been too scared to tell you.”

She followed up with two pictures: one shows her wearing what are presumably the offending pants, and the other shows her in a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV. (There is also a vape resting on her hospital gown. That’s not relevant to this story, just a fun detail.)

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