Hilary Duff has experienced "traumatic" lightning crotch during her pregnancy.
Hilary Duff
The 33-year-old actress - who has Luca, eight, with ex-husband Mike Comrie and two-year-old Banks with husband Matthew Koma - feels like she has been struck by shooting pains in her vagina as her body prepares to give birth to her third child.
Speaking on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show', she explained: “Let’s be real here, I think Matt was the first one to be on blast with that and then I just happened to repost it because I can’t help but think his trolling me is so funny.
“I didn’t have it with the other kids so I text my midwife the other day and I was like, ‘What’s up with the stabbing pains in my vagina? I’m not feeling this.’ It feels awful, like you’re being struck by lightning. She just wrote back and was like, ‘Oh, lightning crotch,’ like it was no big thing. I was like, ‘This is quite traumatic.’ It’ll just strike and all of a sudden you’re doubled over then it’s gone. The term is call lightning, which is like the baby getting ready for birth, lowering.”
However, Duff feels like this has been her "best pregnancy so far" as she has been busy with work and playing with her two children.
She added: “I feel about how I look, which is really, really big. I feel tired and honestly it’s been the best pregnancy so far...That’s helpful because I don’t have time to focus on every ache and pain or [like] ‘the baby’s the size of this fruit this week.'”
It comes after the 'Lizzie McGuire' star recently revealed she has been suffering from pregnancy sciatica - a painful condition, which causes shooting pains up a person's lower back and legs.
Sharing a picture of herself lying in bed on her Instagram account, she captioned it: "When the pregnancy sciatica gets ya. (sic)"
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