The Glee star opens up about polycystic ovary syndrome (via toofab)
"I've never had a negative relationship with my body. However, I can lose and gain weight very quickly -- as a woman in the industry I'm in, that can be very stressful," she went on. "If I fluctuate one week, they'll say, 'Lea Michele is packing it on.' Around 30, my metabolism changed, and I suddenly gained weight and felt out of control."
"I didn't know what was going on. All people wanted to do was give me more medication," she explained, noting her skin also began to break out. "I don't shun people for needing or wanting to take medication, but for me, I knew something wasn't right. I just felt medication wasn't going to be the final cure.""The minute she looked at me, she was like, 'Oh, you have PCOS.' It explained everything," she recalled.
While some women with the syndrome need medication to manage their symptoms, others can tailor their diets to provide some relief. Michele said she was raised in a "very carb-heavy household," eating her mother's homemade Italian food. "Big Sunday dinners with pasta and meatballs" was not uncommon. But since her diagnosis, she's shifted to a more plant-based diet.
"I feel like I am at the healthiest place in my entire life," she said. "It's not that I'm the thinnest, because I'm not the thinnest I've been. But when I was the thinnest, I was not being the healthiest. I'm definitely the most mentally, physically, and spiritually sound that I've ever been."
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