- Florence Pugh has been open about her health issues
- They’ve not stopped her Hollywood career
- She is about to release We Live In Time with Andrew Garfield
Florence Pugh is one of the most in-demand actresses of her generation. Her list of Hollywood credits are vast and varied.
Her career began with the 2014 drama The Falling alongside Game of Thrones’s star Maisie Williams. Pugh has since gone on to star in a string of successful movies in a mixture of genres.
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Highlights include Greta Gerwig’s adaption of the classic book Little Women and the multi-Academy Award-winning Oppenheimer. Pugh played Communist USA Party member Jean Tatlock in Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2023.
Starring opposite Andrew Garfield, she will soon return to the big screen with the drama We Live In Time. Before this, her biggest blockbuster was Dune: Part Two.
However, Pugh’s life isn’t all glamour and film sets as she has been increasingly open about her health battles.
What medical condition does Florence Pugh have?
In November 2024, Pugh revealed that she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis. These two conditions lead to complications with fertility. Upon learning this information, the Midsommar star opted to get her eggs frozen.
“I had this sudden feeling that I should go and get everything checked. I’d had a few weird dreams; I think my body was telling me,” she said while appearing with Dr Thais Aliabadi and influencer Mary Alice Haney on the She MD podcast.
The Don’t Worry Darling star then met with Dr Aliabadi, who asked her if she had ever received an egg count.
To which she recalled, “And I was like, ‘No, what do you mean? I’m so young. Why do I need an egg count?’”
Pugh called the process “bizarre” because of her family history of later-in-life pregnancies.
“It was just so bizarre because my family are baby-making machines. My mum had babies into her 40s. My gran had babies throughout…and then, of course, I learned completely different information, at age 27, that I need to get my eggs out and do it quickly, which was just a bit of a mind-boggling realisation and one that I’m really lucky and glad that I found out when I did because I’ve been wanting kids since I was a child,” she said.
Does Florence Pugh have any other health issues?
In August 2022, Pugh spoke about why her family moved to Spain for a few years during her childhood. They were advised to relocate to “a hotter climate” by doctors treating her for tracheomalacia. This is marked by a hindrance in the development of the cartilage in either the windpipe or the trachea. It can vanish on its own or lead to breathing problems and a cough.
Speaking on the podcast Running Wild With Bear Grylls, she said, “We were in Spain because I have a breathing issue, and when I was younger they kind of just advised that a hotter climate would be better. I have asthma and I have this thing called tracheomalacia as well. And so from a young age, I’ve just had a different breathing system.”
Pugh revealed the breathing issue left her with her signature rasp in her voice, one of the few lingering impacts.
“Now as an adult, unless I get ill, it doesn’t really affect me as intensely as it did when I was younger,” she told the adventurer.
It did mean that she felt better suited to stay in sunny Los Angeles for the height of the COVID-19 lockdown.
