Robert Irwin gets emotional as he discusses his sister Bindi’s crippling endometriosis

Robert Irwin got emotional on Monday when he discussed his sister Bindi’s decade-long battle with endometriosis.

The conservationist, 19, who appeared in Sunrise on Monday said he was relieved. Bindi, 24, finally got the treatment she needed from renowned American surgeon Dr. Tamer Seckin, after several doctors dismissed her condition as a pain that women face.

The Crikey! It’s the Irwins star’s surgeon at the Seckin Endometriosis Center in New York City who removed a total of thirty-seven lesions and a “chocolate cyst” — a term for a cyst filled with menstrual blood — during her surgery.

Bindi went downhill fast and lived in hellish conditions. And she was turned down and told it was all in her head,” he told hosts David Koch and Natalie Barr.

“She’s a new woman now. I am very vocal about women getting help and men putting it on their radar.

The teen said seeing Bindi’s experience made him more empathetic to what many women go through and urged other men to do the same.

Earlier this month, Bindi gave fans an update on her health and assured them that she is doing well after surgery.

She hosted a Q&A on Instagram and was asked by her followers about her battle with the debilitating condition.

Bindi was happy to report ithat after a long hard road she finally got better.

“It has been a very long journey and many challenges to get to this point. I am very grateful to be on the other side of the excision surgery. I can officially say that I finally feel better,” she explained.

Bindi went on to say that she had lived with constant pain for years, and it wasn’t until her daughter Grace Warrior was born in 2021 that she started looking for answers.

“What was really hard was that Grace didn’t know what was wrong with her mom and didn’t know what was wrong with me either,” she wrote.

The Crikey! It’s the Irwins star who added that she was also diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, which meant she struggled to eat meals.

Bindi shocked her fans in March when she revealed she suffered from endometriosis and was undergoing major surgery.

She shared a photo of herself from her hospital bed and said she wanted to raise awareness and help other women who may be suffering from the condition.

She spoke out because she wanted to draw attention to the fact that doctors often don’t take the condition seriously enough, noting that a doctor had once told her that pain was just a normal part of being a woman.

‘I have been struggling with insurmountable fatigue, pain and nausea for ten years. Trying to stay a positive person and hide the hurt has gone a long way,” she began.

“Over the past ten years there have been a lot of tests, doctor visits, scans, etc.

“A doctor told me it’s just something you have to deal with as a woman and I completely gave up and tried to function through the pain.

“I didn’t find answers until a friend, Leslie Mosier, helped me get my life back. I decided to have an operation for endometriosis.’

She said that “going in for surgery was scary, but I knew I couldn’t live the way I was,” adding that “every” aspect of her life was “torn apart” because of the pain.

Bindi revealed that her surgeon’s first words to her after she woke up from the procedure were, “How did you live with so much pain?”

She said it was an “indescribable” feeling to get this “confirmation” from a medical professional after years of her pain being brushed off by doctors, before thanking her family and friends who encouraged her to find answers.

“Thank you to the doctors and nurses who believed my pain,” she added. “I’m on the road to recovery and the gratitude I feel is overwhelming.”

“To those questioning the canceled plans, unanswered messages and absences, I poured every ounce of energy I had left into our daughter and family,” she said.

Bindi also revealed that her daughter Grace Warrior, who turns two later this month, is a “miracle” baby for her and husband Chandler Powell.

Bindi urged her followers to think twice before asking women “when they will have more children” because you never know if they have fertility problems, adding that she feels lucky to have had Grace.

Endometriosis is an often painful condition in which the tissue that lines the uterus also grows outside the uterus.

According to IVF Australia, endometriosis can affect a woman’s chances of getting pregnant.

‘Severe endometriosis can distort the fallopian tubes and ovaries and can block the release of the egg by causing scar tissue or cysts. Although mild endometriosis is sometimes associated with infertility, it is not known how this happens.

However, the website emphasizes that women suffering from the debilitating condition can still conceive naturally