"If a woman is irritated… people say she’s PMSing" - Rashmi Gautam | Filmfare.com (2025)

Rashmi Gautam opens up about her recent health scare and surgery for fibroids after severe bleeding and drastic weight loss.

Rashmi Gautam's performance in the recent episodes of her TV shows has gone down. She lost weight drastically and was not active on social media either. Her health deteriorated drastically, and she was hospitalized. Recently, the actress took to her social media and updated her fans about her health. She was operated on for fibroid issues. “I had five stitches, and fibroids have been removed. I am feeling better now, and I am recuperating,” says Rashmi, adding that she wanted to complete work commitments before going under the knife.

Fibroids can happen to any woman

It was around February, Rashmi’s spotting turned into bleeding even during her menstrual cycle. Although her bleeding was stopped…it happened again in the last week of March when her cycle started. It continued till April 18. During the period I kept losing 100 ml of blood daily even after her cycle,” she rues. “My bleeding was profuse. I was becoming anaemic and losing weight and energy. After my haemoglobin levels dropped to nine in just five days and platelet count has dropped drastically then it became an emergency,” Rashmi shares. The actress was diagnosed with Fibroids – a common phenomenon that happens to women of all age groups. Rashmi states that Fibroids can happen to any woman (between 20-50 age group) and is majorly a combination of genetic and lifestyle. While she did not want to discuss her health on social media, the comments on her social media handles were unwarranted.

Jokes on PMSing

Rashmi regrets that social media is full of jokes about PMSing and that every mood swing of a woman is being ascribed to Premenstrual syndrome (PMS). While women suffer from different kinds of PMSing like body and back aches, lower abdominal cramps and migraines, the actress states that majority of the people are not even aware of different types of symptoms. She said, “So if a woman is irritated…people say its PMSing or ‘is it that time of the month.’”

When women are constantly subjected to such jokes, even we feel like letting it go, she explains, stating that deep down women are suppressing themselves because everything is boiling down to PMSing. She said, "If a woman is pissed off with some other issue, it’ll be pushed on PMSing.” The actress points out that aching is common between both the genders. Just like women, even men have muscle aches after a long day at work. She added, “Knee pains, neck pains, etc., are common and generic in both genders but if the moment pains are subjected to women, then people say, ‘she is aging.’ When a woman’s body faces any basic issues, she is called out for aging. A woman’s failures and downfalls are constantly subjected to her age.”

A woman’s pain is being normalized

Being a woman, Rashmi cannot be outspoken on issues related to the menstrual cycle. According to her, Uterus should be healthy for an overall well-being because it regulates and controls the hormones. But if we talk about issues related to cycle it becomes a taboo, she adds. She continued, “Social media too instilled a lot of fear in women about opening up on such issues. A woman’s pain is being normalized which shouldn’t be because these (menstrual cycle pains and fibroids) are not something we have asked for. We are born with these things, and it’s just a common and natural phenomenon that can happen to any woman. When women are being subjected to such issues, it affects our career because even I pushed myself to complete work commitments. I think somewhere women have been conditioned to take pain and up their endurance levels," she remarks. Rashmi appeals to men to not make a mockery of it without having proper knowledge.

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