Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esther Hollander had pain and decreased mobility beginning in 2020. Her doctors told her the symptoms were related to obesity.

After losing 350 pounds, Jaqueline Adan often felt frustrated that her legs still looked so big. If she asked her doctors why, they told her to lose more weight. “I can’t be like ‘OK, body, now lose ...

An estimated one in nine adult women struggle with an abnormal and painful fat buildup in the lower body — and no amount of diet or exercise can help. Lipedema, a relatively common but often ...

In college Judy Maggiore remembers looking in the mirror, perplexed by her body’s disproportion. "I was skinny. I was a stick. The upper part of my body was really, really thin. You could see my ribs!

It started with joint pain. Then, lumps of hardened tissue began forming in her thighs. For years, Aisha Durham visited doctors in Tampa Bay seeking a diagnosis that would explain the aching in her ...

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"Doctors would just fat shame me. They would just say you need to lose weight," said 69-year-old Marianne Klaczyinski, who believes she's been living with lipedema most of her life. She first started ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Esther Hollander. It has been edited for length ...