For Lupita Nyong'o's birthday, her wish is to save other women from "suffering in silence" as she did with 77 uterine fibroids. "This is not a rare story, just a rarely told one," she wrote. Source: Emma McIntyre/Oscars / Getty The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star celebrated her 43rd birthday by sharing her experience with fibroids. She took to Instagram on March 1 with a heartfelt message about the very common but rarely discussed noncancerous tumors that grow on or in the uterus.