Bindi Irwin is doing much better as she continues her endometriosis battle, her family said Friday at the 3rd Annual Steve Irwin Gala in Las Vegas. Terri Irwin said her daughter was there “in spirit” on May 2, but was staying a little close to home this year because travel remains difficult.
“Bindi is doing so much better now,” Terri said, adding that the family expects her back at the gala next year to celebrate the night.
Robert Irwin said his sister is also helping keep things moving at Australia Zoo, where the family’s conservation work continues across a sprawling operation. “You gotta remember [in] Australia Zoo there’s 500 in our team,” he said. “There’s about 500,000 acres of conservation land that we have. Someone’s got to hold down the fort. So, Bindi’s doing a great job at that.”
The update comes more than a month after Bindi opened up on March 30 about the pain behind her condition. In an Instagram post, she said she had spent 10 years being undiagnosed and that 50 lesions had been cut out of her body over the past three years. She said doctors told her it was just part of being a woman, and described feeling weak, deeply insecure and trapped in her own body as a teenager and young woman.
Her post laid out why the family’s update matters now: Bindi has been open about the hard road of living with endometriosis, and she has been trying to balance recovery with life at home and work at the zoo. She shares 5-year-old daughter Grace with husband Chandler Powell, and the family said this year’s travel load was too much while she focuses on getting better.
That is the tension in Bindi’s story. She is improving, but not fully back to the pace her public life once demanded. For now, the family says the answer is simple: she is home, she is healing, and she will be back when the road is easier to travel.