Comedian's shock diagnosis: 'IT FELT LIKE A TICKING TIME BOMB'

Funnylady Lana Walters found out she had a large ovarian cyst and endometriosis when she had her first pregnancy scan

- Hayley McLarin

The last time Lana Walters did stand-up, she shared her hilarious encounters with Tinder T dating. Now she's preparing to regale audiences with stories of her life as a mother and as the owner of a high-achieving single ovary.

Understandably, Lana, who is best known for 7 Days, the New Zealand Comedy Gala and Snort, tries to find a funny side to what was an incredibly scary journey of a growing bump inside her - not the pregnancy, but instead an ovarian cyst that threatened to burst before the comic made her way up the surgical waiting list.

"During pregnancy scans, I found out I had a large ovarian cyst along with endometriosis," the 31-year-old tells. "They did blood tests and said it wasn't cancerous. But I felt like I was walking around with a ticking time bomb.

"Every time I would get a scan, they'd tell me how big the baby was and I would say, 'And how about the cyst?" Doctors couldn't operate while she was pregnant and said to wait to see if it would burst. "Isn't it great to be a woman?!" she jokes.

Lana's fear that it would rupture when Sophie was born thankfully didn't eventuate and, in July last year, she had the 11cm growth removed.