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10.08.2023 - 17:19 / usmagazine.com
Sasha Pieterse discussed the challenges of gaining 70 pounds at age 17 — while filming a hit TV series — due to her experience with polycystic ovary syndrome.
“This is part of the health issues that I was speaking of while I was going through Pretty Little Liars. The changes that were happening to me were documented on camera,” Pieterse, 27, said during the Wednesday, August 9, episode of Taylor Lautner and wife Taylor Dome‘s “The Squeeze” podcast.
Pieterse recalled having symptoms of PCOS during her time playing Alison DiLaurentis.
“I never had a regular period ever and I was just always told by gynecologists that I was just young. Like, ‘Don’t worry, it’ll regulate,’” the actress, who appeared on PLL from 2010 to 2017, noted. “ It was probably around 15 or 16 that I started noticing a difference in just my metabolism in general. At 17, I gained 70 pounds in the year, for no reason. There was no explanation for it.”
Pieterse visited “over 15 gynecologists” but wasn’t able to get a proper diagnosis. According to Pieterse, doctors accused her of lying about the weight gain and insinuated that an unhealthy lifestyle was to blame.
“It was the most frustrating experience and disheartening because no matter what I did, no matter how well I behaved, no matter how great I treated my body, things were actually getting worse rather than better. It was very very confusing,” she continued. “So after a long process, someone recommended that I go to an endocrinologist.”
After being diagnosed with PCOS, Pieterse was finally able to understand her body’s changes. (PCOS is a hormonal disorder that causes symptoms such as irregular periods, excess hair growth, acne, weight gain and infertility.)
“I was like, ‘What’s that?’ I’d never heard of
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polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).She explained on a recent episode of Taylor Lautner’s The Squeeze podcast how she went to several doctors to try to amend her symptoms and stop her weight hike.“This is part of the health issues that I was speaking of while I was going through ‘Pretty Little Liars,'” she explained. She recalled: “The changes that were happening to me were documented on camera.”The “Perfectionists” actor noted that she never had a regular menstruation cycle and gynecologists always assured her that her body would regulate itself.However, when she hit the age of around 15-16, she “started noticing a difference in just my metabolism in general.”“At 17, I gained 70 lbs.
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