Bebe Rexha Says This PCOS Symptom Changed Her Relationship With Her Body

glamour.com:

(PCOS) and how the symptoms of the condition have affected her in a new interview with Gayle King on the SiriusXM show .“I just found out recently I have PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome, and a lot of women have it.

A lot of women who have it don’t know,” the 33-year-old singer said. “It causes facial hair, acne around the chin, weight gain—it makes it hard to get pregnant….

A lot of women don’t know they have it because it takes a certain type of doctor and certain tests [to be diagnosed with the condition].”Despite the fact that up to 12% of people with ovaries have PCOS, getting a diagnosis can, as Rexha said, be challenging.

There’s no one specific test that can tell a doctor a person has the condition, so a specialist—typically, a gynecologist or endocrinologist—first has to rule out a number of other illnesses that can cause similar symptoms (including problems with the thyroid, pituitary, or adrenal glands).