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"I texted my midwife the other day and I was like, 'What's up with the stabbing pains in my vagina? I'm not feeling this,'" Duff, 33, tells Brooke Baldwin, a guest host of the
Ellen DeGeneres Show, about the painful sensations she's experiencing right now during her third pregnancy. "It feels awful, like you're being struck by lightning! And she just wrote back and she was like, 'Oh, lightning crotch,' like it was no big thing. And I was like, 'This is quite traumatic.'"
Duff describes lightning crotch this way: "It'll just strike and all of a sudden and you're, like, doubled over and then it's gone." So what exactly is this little-known phenomenon?