Crystal Kim was 10 years old when she joined her town's baseball team.

It was the 1970s and it was a big deal because it was the first year that they were

allowing girls to play. Before her first practice her mom had a talk with Crystal. She just

sat me down and she was like okay you will be becoming a young lady and

there's certain things that you need to take care of as far as hygiene and smelling good and you

know women have certain odors that we don't want coming out so there's things that you

can do to take care of yourself and one of them is putting baby powder in your panties and under your arms and making sure that you stay dry so that you don't smell.

Crystal went off to practice.

Growing up, there was always a big white bottle of Johnson and Johnson's

baby powder underneath the sink in the bathroom.

And from that day forward, she used it almost every day, sprinkling it on her body and in her underwear.

The routine was always, you know, shower with soap, lotion, Johnson and Johnson's powder and deodorant.

And in our community, we would always see like older girls with powder on their necks and in their cleavage.

So that was kind of like a statement, like I'm clean,

see I have my powder on.

And that kind of stuck with me. is When Crystal was 47 years old, she went in for fibroid surgery.

She had been bleeding a lot during her menstrual cycle and she was very anemic.

The surgery was to shrink the fibroids.

The surgery went well and a year later in 2014 she went in for a follow-up ultrasound.

She was feeling healthy. But the doctor found something in her ovaries during the

ultrasound. It looked like it might be cancer. They needed to do an

exploratory surgery right away. If I said if you find anything just do what you need

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