‘Pretty Little Liars’ Star Sasha Pieterse Opens Up About Her Weight Gain Due To PCOS

Sasha Pieterse is opening up about her “disheartening” journey with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which she stated led her to realize weight whereas filming the hit present “Pretty Little Liars.”

“This is part of the health issues that I was speaking of while I was going through ‘Pretty Little Liars,’” Pieterse, now 27, stated on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast “The Squeeze.” “The changes that were happening to me were documented on camera.”

Speaking to podcast co-hosts Taylor Lautner and his spouse, Taylor Dome Lautner, Pieterse famous that round age 15, she began noticing a distinction in her metabolism, however that by 17 she had “gained 70 pounds in the year,” including that “there was no explanation for it.”

The actor stated that regardless of visiting “over 15 gynecologists” to hunt solutions about her ongoing signs, she felt unheard after docs couldn’t work out what should be blamed for her weight acquire.

“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,’” she defined.

Pieterse referred to as the ordeal “the most frustrating experience.”

“Because no matter what I did, no matter how well I behave, no matter how great I treated my body, things were actually getting worse rather than better. It was very, very confusing,” she added.

Things started to show round after she noticed an endocrinologist who lastly identified her with PCOS.

“I was like, what’s that? I’d never heard of PCOS before. And it’s a disease, it’s not curable, it can be dormant,” Pieterse stated.

Pieterse stated she was annoyed that it took so lengthy to get solutions about her situation as a result of PCOS is “fairly easy to diagnose.”

“It’s a hormone imbalance. It’s a hormone disease, and it’s so easy to see because your testosterone or your estrogen will be really high, you’ll have really low vitamin D levels, you’ll be deficient in a lot of things,” “The Perfectionists” actor continued.

PCOS impacts 6% to 12% of girls and might trigger signs equivalent to infertility, irregular intervals, zits, thinning hair, diabetes and extra hair progress on the face and physique, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“I had a lot of those outward symptoms that everyone could see,” she shared.

Pieterse, who married actor Hudson Sheaffer in May 2018, received candid with People in 2020 about how the pair initially had considerations about how PCOS would possibly have an effect on their means to have a child collectively.

“Just the fact that we were able to get pregnant was such a blessing because with PCOS that made me nervous,” she stated on the time. “A lot of women have infertility issues and so we were expecting more difficulty, so it’s been an absolute blessing that we were able to just get pregnant by ourselves.”

The couple welcomed their first little one, Hendrix Wade Scheaffer, in November 2020.

Pieterse instructed People that turning into pregnant together with her son helped ease her PCOS signs.

“My hormones have been balancing out, so it’s actually been a good thing [in that regard],” she stated. “And I’m hoping that this will maybe even help in the future, too.”