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Jean Campbell is a supermodel, often found on the cover of Vogue or fronting a Pandora campaign. However, when you look at those glamorous pictures, there is something you won’t see: chronic pain going back more than ten years to an accident that led to a complicated surgery to reattach muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
A few years later came the discovery of hip dysplasia and an operation that involved breaking the right side of her pelvis in three places before she was put back together with three six-inch screws. A month in a wheelchair, three months on crutches, and a year and a half of intense physiotherapy followed—only for her to be told she would require eight more surgeries.
Jean fell into a dark hole, becoming nihilistic, depressed, and detached. She was without hope. But remarkably, she refused to believe that extreme surgery was the only option. She pushed back against the medical pressure to go ahead with the operations and instead trusted her intuition that there might be another way. Slowly, she began to find acceptance of her pain and of the fallibility of human nature, and her depression softened into curiosity.
Pain for Jean is a daily experience, but she isn’t defined by it.
After years of suffering, Jean decided she wanted to talk about it. She wanted to talk about pain. Jean now hosts the I’m Fine podcast, and she will join us to discuss pain: how it isolates, how it infuriates, how it traumatises, how it’s universal in many ways, and how it’s possible to heal.
Far more people are hiding chronic pain than you realise. You may, in fact, be someone who puts on a brave face when you actually want to scream. Join us and let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about pain.