The Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed that doctors found 21 fibroids in her uterus. Porsha Williams is opening up about a deeply personal health battle that led to an emergency hysterectomy .
“It all happened so fast. Later, she went with a friend to a fertility appointment and asked the doctor for an exam. “And I’m like, ‘Not again. Not again. Williams struggled with choosing lifesaving surgery at the cost of her fertility. “I didn’t have a choice about the hysterectomy, but it saved my life.
Two weeks later, in May 2026, she had surgery. My quality of life has improved 100 percent since,” she wrote.
It really didn’t hit me until I woke up in the hospital bed,” Williams, who appeared in season four of “Traitors” and is currently on “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip,” said in an exclusive “CBS Mornings” interview. They had come back,” Williams said. A fertility specialist was “in shock” by the number of fibroids and sent her straight for an MRI. Writing in her Glamour essay, “I woke up after the surgery and thought, ‘A part of me is gone.'” She added, “There’s a stigma to it, as if you’re somehow less of a woman without your uterus.
