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" I saw the most incredible movie this weekend \u2014 A Walk to Beautiful. It&amp;#039;s a documentary that follows the physical and emotional journeys of five Ethiopian women as they travel to a hospital with hopes of being cured of a problem that has ruined their lives. The disorder these women have in common, called obstetric fistula, is caused during labor and, perhaps the worst part of it all, could easily be prevented if they had access to proper gynecological care while giving birth. The film explains that if a woman has particularly small hips, whether it&amp;#039;s due to age (some of these girls were married and became pregnant as young as 13!) or genetics, there is a huge risk of the baby being too big to come out. This means that if the labor is not being monitored in a hospital it can last for up to ten days! You don&amp;#039;t have to be a doctor to know that must be insanely hard on a woman&amp;#039;s body \u2014 and a lot of times, it affects a woman&amp;#039;s anatomy surrounding the bladder in such a way that the mothers lose all control over it and constantly leak urine \u2014 this is what doctor&amp;#039;s call &amp;quot;obstetric fistula&amp;quot;. Because there is no widespread knowledge of the cause of this disorder, women who suffer from it are seen as literal freaks \u2014 they are abandoned by their husbands, their families and their friends! But here is the happy news: there is a hospital where women suffering from obstetric fistula can go to receive treatment and many of them can be cured! The doctors and nurses who run the hospital are true, modern day saints and to the women they treat, they are miracle workers! On some levels, this movie was really hard to take, it&amp;#039;s tough to see what these women have gone through; it breaks your heart. But I believe it&amp;#039;s always worth it to try and broaden my view of the world. I will also say it makes me feel incredibly lucky to live in a place where pregnancies are carefully monitored and women&amp;#039;s health is taken so seriously. If you&amp;#039;re interested, CG!s check out the movie&amp;#039;s website to take a closer look at these women and let me know what you think\u2014I think they&amp;#039;re amazing!  xo, Julia CG! Beauty Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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