The last time Lana Walters did stand-up, she shared her hilarious encounters with Tinder T dating. Now she's preparing to regale audiences with stories of her life as a mother and as the owner of a high-achieving single ovary.
Understandably, Lana, who is best known for 7 Days, the New Zealand Comedy Gala and Snort, tries to find a funny side to what was an incredibly scary journey of a growing bump inside her - not the pregnancy, but instead an ovarian cyst that threatened to burst before the comic made her way up the surgical waiting list.
"During pregnancy scans, I found out I had a large ovarian cyst along with endometriosis," the 31-year-old tells. "They did blood tests and said it wasn't cancerous. But I felt like I was walking around with a ticking time bomb.
"Every time I would get a scan, they'd tell me how big the baby was and I would say, 'And how about the cyst?" Doctors couldn't operate while she was pregnant and said to wait to see if it would burst. "Isn't it great to be a woman?!" she jokes.
Lana's fear that it would rupture when Sophie was born thankfully didn't eventuate and, in July last year, she had the 11cm growth removed.
This story is from the May 12, 2023 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.
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