Bebe Rexha shared her painful PCOS symptoms on Wednesday during a candid video on TikTok.
The 34-year-old singer was asked about her symptoms from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and their frequency and answered with details for her roughly 8.5 million followers.
The New York City native revealed that her first symptom was having irregular periods and revealed that one month she had her period for 20 days.
‘Super, super irregular,’ Bebe said.
Bebe said her second symptom was weight gain and that she had gained ‘a lot in four years.’
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She talked about counting calories and shared pics of herself weighing her food daily.
Bebe said she was consuming only 1,400 calories a day and burning about 700 calories in workouts.
‘My doctor once told me that a woman with PCOS can eat a bowl of blueberries and it would be equivalent to like a normal person eating a whole pie of pizza,’ Bebe said.
Bebe said she has been getting some help from the medication Metformin, which has helped her period get back on track.
‘Another thing that I notice is bad cysts,’ Bebe said.
‘Two weeks ago I was in Urgent Care. I was in so much pain. My doctor thought it was an appendicitis, it was so bad. It was actually a cyst that had burst. Tylenol didn’t work, Advil didn’t work. I was sick to my stomach the pain was so bad,’ Bebe said.
She shared that a heating pad helped with the pain and said another symptom was acne bloated.
‘I will get super bloated. That’s one thing that sucks,’ Bebe said.
Bebe revealed in 2023 that she has PCOS.
The Brooklyn native opened up about her hormone balance in May 2023 on the Gayle King SiriusXM show and explained that the condition can cause symptoms such as ovarian cysts.
‘I definitely struggle with my weight, and I struggle with the way that I look, and it’s been tough for me. I just found out recently that I have PCOS, and a lot of women have it. And a lot of women have it and don’t know,’ Bebe said.
‘It’s tough. I think for me, I’ve been definitely struggling with my weight, and I’ve been struggling with food forever,’ she added.
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