What Is Lipedema? The Signs I Missed for Decades (and What I’d Tell You Now)

Dear Two Moons Readers, I’m Andrea, founder of The Whiny GYNie, and I’m writing to you as someone who spent decades thinking my body was a personal failure. I was the kid who started out skinny… and then puberty hit and my body took a hard left turn into a shape I didn’t recognize. I became dramatically pear-shaped, so disproportionate that I used to say it looked like two bodies sewn together at the waist. For decades, I assumed the problem was discipline. It wasn’t. It was a condition called lipedema.