by Women's Health | Mar 28, 2018 | Health
When Selena Gomez shared that she was battling lupus in 2015, it shed light on a disease that affects a number of people — most of them women, who typically develop it during the childbearing years (between 15 and 44). This is especially devastating because lupus is a...
by Women's Health | Dec 13, 2017 | Health
Five years ago Mali Ramara had a thick, natural afro. “As a woman, I identified my beauty with my afro hair,” she recalls. “It was so liberating, as an adult, to accept myself with a natural afro because up to my late twenties, I used chemicals to...
by Women's Health | Nov 1, 2017 | Health
By Korin Miller; Image courtesy of Selena Gomez/Instagram “I got to the point where it was really life or death.” Fans were blown away in September after Selena Gomez revealed that she had a kidney transplant after suffering complications from lupus....
by Women's Health | Sep 14, 2017 | Health
By Cara Sprunk; Image courtesy of Selena Gomez/Instagram Her friend, actress Francia Raisa, was the donor. Selena Gomez just revealed that she secretly underwent kidney-transplant surgery. “I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my lupus and was...
by Women's Health | Aug 24, 2016 | Health
Not to be confused with that werewolf character from Harry Potter (although, the Latin translation of the word is literally “wolf”), lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation. Read on about one woman’s story – and how to lower your...
