'I visited 7 doctors before one agreed to sterilise me at 24 - it was traumatising'

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TikTok earlier on in the year for sharing that she got sterilised at the age of 24 - meaning she could never get pregnant.The actress and model from Los Angeles, US, decided to take the drastic step after a bout of irregular periods and bad side effects from the birth control pill which left her throwing up and in A&E with dehydration.This made Abby realise that she did not want to ever deal with being pregnant so started to look around for doctors to perform the life-changing procedure from the age of 18.But, despite her wishes to get the sterilisation procedure done in her teens, she was in for a ‘traumatic’ journey to achieve full autonomy over her body.Abby spent years going through seven different doctors in different states, with one obstetrician gynaecologist telling her she was too “pretty to be depressed” and should just take birth control instead of getting sterilised.Fast-forward seven years, now at the age of 25, Abby has started to heal from the surgery that burnt off and sealed her fallopian tubes.Although physically healed, the actress has described the process of trying to get a doctor to listen to her as "traumatising.”In an exclusive chat with the Daily Star, Abby has revealed the struggle she went through to get a doctor to listen to her - and is now in a state of “relief” knowing that she will never conceive.She explained: “The first doctor I went to in California saw that I was on depression and anxiety medication, told me I was too pretty to be depressed and had a great life, told me to do positive affirmation exercises in the mirror and sent me home with birth control pills.“After that, I put together a bunch of information for the next doctor full of my family medical history and reasoning for my.