Womens_Health_Australia_December_2016

92 womenshealth.com.au DECEMBER 2016

By Meghan Rabbitt Photography by Eric Ogden

That’swhatstrangersonpublictransportlikelythinkastheyshoot

AshliStempeldirtylooksfornotgivingupherseattoelderly

passengers.It’swh herpeersrolltheireyeswhenshecomplainsabout

theexcruciatin pain.Shesuspectsthatevenhermatesthinkshe’san

exa eratoror,worse,afaker.“TherearedaysIgotoworkinagony.

It’stoughtoconcentrate,”shesays.Like a rowin number of youn

women,Ashlisuffersfrompainthat’sinvisibletotheeye,but so

cripplin she has to plan ever detail of her life around it.

DOES THIS

WOMAN

LOOK SICK

TO YOU?

NO?

TAKEACLOSERLOOK.

STILL

NO?