Mae Whitman: ‘Endometriosis Is Like Being Shot With a Cannonball in the Stomach’
For 23 years, Mae Whitman, of NBC’s Good Girls, suffered from severe, unexplained pain. It started when she was a kid, challenging her on set, and as she got older it got worse, creeping in and absolutely leveling her, leaving her vomiting and curled on the bathroom floor.Last year, Whitman was diagnosed with , a disorder in which tissue similar to what lines the uterus grows outside of the uterus.