In front of a crowd of about a thousand people, Natalie May stepped onstage to talk about something she’d barely even spoken to close friends about — her vagina.
Her husband was mortified.
But by 2018, May had gotten used to being known as “the vagina lady” to audiences ranging from 12 to 200, sharing her own experience to help others recognize the early warning signs of ovarian cancer.
“It’s not just something that happens to someone else. It can happen to us,” she told Business Insider.
May, who lives in Adelaide, Australia, was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer.
Now in her 50s and one of Australia’s leading…
