Charlene Modeste shares her honest journey on living with fibroids.

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when your body tells a story the world keeps getting wrong?Charlene Modeste has fibroids. And for years, she watched herself expand while the medical system looked the other way — no insurance, no access, no options. Strangers assumed she was pregnant. Doctors pushed a hysterectomy. And through all of it, she kept advocating for herself when nobody else would.In this episode, Charlene sits down with Rho to talk about what it really feels like to live in a body that gets misread every single day. The heavy bleeding that flattened her for days at a time. The surgical removal that didn't stick. The alternative remedies she tried out of pure necessity. And the moment she stumbled across research that changed everything — and sent her to Northern California chasing plant medicine and a way out that didn't involve losing her uterus.She also gets into apoptosis — the biological process where mutated cells essentially check themselves out of the body. And how cannabis triggered exactly that for her tumors.But here's the thing. This episode isn't heavy. Charlene is hilarious. She's warm. And she's turned this whole wild journey into a one-woman show called She's About to Pop: An Immaculate Misconception — because if you can't laugh at the woman who grabbed your fibroid belly at a barbecue and said "five boys, you poor thing" — what are you even doing?This one is for every woman who has been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told to just push through the pain.You are not alone. And you are allowed to heal on your own terms.In this episode we cover:What fibroids actually are and why 80% of women will have them by 50The difference between a myomectomy and a hysterectomy — and why it mattersWhy Charlene said no to surgery and what she did insteadCannabis, apoptosis, and shrinking tumors with plant medicineLiving in a body the world keeps misreadingAdvocating for yourself when doctors aren't listeningHow a painful private journey became a public one-woman showConnect with Charlene Modeste:Website: charlenemoedste.comInstagram: @charlenemodesteShe's About to Pop: An Immaculate MisconceptionJuly 11th | Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | Leimert Park, Los AngelesBuy TicketsHold My Purse drops every other week. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review if this episode moved you. Someone in your life needs to hear this one.Email address: [email protected]: https://www.hold-my-purse.com/Rho I YouTubeRho I InstagramRho I TikTokRho I Facebook GroupAria I Instagram