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NATSUME AKI had a promising career as a J-pop star. By the time she turned 23, in 2014, she had become the poster girl of a trendy new anime. Yet as her fame grew, so did a tumour inside her womb. A cervical-cancer diagnosis knocked her off stage and plunged her into despair. She lost her fertility. “It’s not like I was already thinking of having kids at the time, but the fact that I no longer had a choice crushed me,” Ms Natsume says.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Side-effects”
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