‘PLL’ star Sasha Pieterse details ‘frustrating’ time gaining 70 pounds during show’s run

Sasha Pieterse rose to fame as a young person when she starred as Alison DiLaurentis on the favored murder-mystery present “Fairly Little Liars.”

Whereas the now-27-year-old appeared on the Freeform collection for seven years, her physique drastically modified all through its run.

Pieterse detailed gaining 70 kilos throughout the present’s airing as a result of her polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

She defined on a current episode of Taylor Lautner’s The Squeeze podcast how she went to a number of medical doctors to attempt to amend her signs and cease her weight hike.

“That is a part of the well being points that I used to be talking of whereas I used to be going by ‘Fairly Little Liars,’” she defined.

She recalled: “The modifications that had been taking place to me had been documented on digicam.”

The “Perfectionists” actor famous that she by no means had an everyday menstruation cycle and gynecologists at all times assured her that her physique would regulate itself.

Nonetheless, when she hit the age of round 15-16, she “began noticing a distinction in simply my metabolism on the whole.”

“At 17, I gained 70 lbs. within the 12 months, for no motive. There was no clarification for it,” she mentioned.

The South African-born actress then went to “over 15 gynecologists” to search out a solution to her issues. However a few of the medical doctors blamed Pieterse’s well being on dangerous consuming and lack of train.

“It was essentially the most irritating expertise and disheartening as a result of it doesn’t matter what I did, regardless of how nicely I behaved, regardless of how nice I handled my physique, issues had been truly getting worse slightly than higher, it was very very complicated,” the mom of 1 sighed.

“So after an extended course of, somebody really useful that I am going to an endocrinologist,” Pieterse said.

The endocrinologist instructed her she had PCOS, a hormonal condition that can cause irregular durations, weight achieve (particularly across the stomach), zits, infertility and extra physique hair.

“I’d by no means heard of PCOS earlier than. And it’s a illness, it’s not curable [and] it may be dormant,” she mentioned.

The “This Country is Bad Ass” singer added that the “most irritating half” in regards to the expertise was that PCOS is “pretty straightforward to diagnose.”

“Each lady, everybody has a distinct expertise with it. It could possibly be your interval, it could possibly be bizarre hair development, it could possibly be main gastro points, it could possibly be loopy cysts in your ovaries, it could possibly be weight achieve,” she continued. “I had a number of these outward signs that everybody might see.”

She then revealed that giving start to her son, Hendrix, in 2020 helped maintain her PCOS at bay and steadiness out her hormones.