Now aged 35 years, Tumusiime is happily married to sports journalist Andrew Kabuura and they are blessed with three children, including a set of twins.
The big urge to have children had driven Flavia into marriage which she once despised. But as a newly wedded wife, when she was diagnosed with a serious reproductive disease that affects women’s fertility, she feared the worst.
Flavia Tumusiime
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The couple exchanged marriage vows in 2019, having been close friends for nearly a decade and dated for 2 years.
Tumusiime says initially, she was apprehensive about marriage.
She’d had a very successful career in media and was living her dreams as a big inspiration to young women... or so she thought.
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Talking to some of her mentees, she says, she realized that most of them were not impressed by her education or career success, but were concerned about her being unmarried.
Added to this, was the immense pressure from the media, with some blogs and tabloids featuring her constantly on the list of “successful unmarried women.”
Upon her marriage in 2019, Tumusiime turned out to have a health condition called endometriosis, a very painful disorder in which uterine tissue starts to grow outside the uterus. Endometriosis most commonly involves the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and the tissue lining the pelvis.
Thankfully, although this disease can affect women’s fertility, Tumusiime says this was not the case with her, as she was able to conceive just a month after marriage.
It, however, severely affected her pregnancy, keeping her in and out of hospital.
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“It is extremely painful I was on drips all the time,” Flavia said on Mwasuze Mutya Program on Friday.
Some of its effects she suffered included excessive vomiting, allergic attacks that left to body swollen, and sleep deprivation.
Since she was working on NTV at the time as a news anchor, she was prescribed a steroid called Dexamethasone which helped temporarily clear her skin.
The medication, however, had to be discontinued when it started affecting her pregnancy.
In the end, her firstborn son Liam was delivered prematurely, in April 2020 via C-section.
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The medical condition carried on during her second pregnancy and she had to get a laparoscopy surgery shortly after conceiving her twins.
