Jessica Grossman was faced with a difficult choice when she was 13 years old. "I was so sick that my intestines were basically septic and the doctors gave me the option to have ostomy surgery," she ...

Sara Levitt is a model and content creator with over 43,000 followers on Instagram The 30-year-old is also a Crohn's disease and ostomy advocate For 15 years, she kept her ostomy bag hidden from the ...

Bethany Townsend never expected that a bikini photo she posted on Facebook would go viral, or that the support she received from thousands of people would reignite her dream to become a model.

A gut rehab surgery in 2016 left Debbie Kinder, 58, with an ileostomy that diverts waste from her small intestine to a wearable pouch. She started keeping her supplies — pouches, odor eliminators, ...

FARMERSVILLE, Calif. -- A Farmersville woman is facing charges after assaulting and trying to rob a man. Bertha Ocejo, 56, showed up at the victim's home on Avenue 304 around 5 p.m. Thursday. She ...

An ostomy is a surgical procedure creating an opening, or "stoma," on the abdomen to allow waste to exit the body. This may be essential due to conditions like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or ...

To say this restraining order didn’t work would be putting it mildly. Despite the restraining order against her, Bertha Ocejo, 56, showed up Thursday at a 70-year-old man’s home in Farmersville, ...

When doctors told her an ostomy was necessary to survive, it felt like there was no real choice. It was either life with an ostomy bag or the risk of dying. Levitt agreed to the temporary ostomy, but ...

"If we don't talk about it, if we don't teach people, how are they going to know to accept us for who we are?" says Jessica Grossman, who founded the nonprofit Uncover Ostomy 27,523 people played the ...