Becca J • Colorado • 42
I got my period when I was 17... SEVENTEEN!!! Talk about a late bloomer. I was frustrated and confused about why it took me so long to get it. There was little discussion about menstruation when I was growing up so I had to figure a lot out on my own. I remember hearing about all of my friends getting their period and being jealous, which sounds strange considering how it’s not exactly a fun thing to experience.
I grew up playing soccer year round and within the first year of getting my period I tore my ACL playing soccer. An interesting chain of events: be the last person in the history of the world to get her period (exaggerating, of course) and then tear a ligament in your knee with a possible connection to being on your period.
