The \u201cOn My Mama\u201d singer shared that she and many other women have no idea that their symptoms are related to PCOS.<\/p>\n
Up until she received a PCOS diagnosis, Victoria Mon\u00e9t<\/a> didn\u2019t know what was going on with her body.<\/p>\n Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a condition that causes hormonal imbalances. The 37-year-old artist shared in an interview with Sirius XM <\/a>that she and many women don\u2019t know that weight gain, excessive hair growth, and reproductive challenges could be symptoms of the condition. None of her previous gynecologists had informed her about the possibility that she may have it.<\/p>\n \u201cI hadn\u2019t heard about it in all my gynecology appointments. I hadn\u2019t heard about it until I went to go see a doctor named Dr. Aliabadi, and she let me know that this is what\u2019s going on with my body, Mon\u00e9t said.<\/p>\n She continued, \u201c[Aliabadi] was showing me the ultrasounds of like literal cysts in my ovaries, and I\u2019m like, wait, it kind of makes sense because I had been in really long relationships where, quite candidly, that we weren\u2019t using protection and I never got pregnant until my big age. So I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I understand now it was more difficult for me to do so.’\u201d<\/p>\n More and more public figures have been shining a light on their experiences with the condition, including Black celebrities like Lori Harvey <\/a>and Keke Palmer<\/a>. Though PCOS affects one in 10 women of childbearing age, Black women with PCOS may experience more severe symptoms, making a diagnosis absolutely crucial. But Mon\u00e9t pointed out that many people don\u2019t understand what PCOS is in the first place.<\/p>\n \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of people and women operating in the world that have no idea what those letters mean, what that disease is or the condition is, that there is no cure for it and how to go about it and combat whatever hormonal changes are happening within it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n More must-reads:<\/strong><\/p>\n