This woman had late-stage Lipedema. She raised awareness about the disorder by explaining facts and statistics related to it. She also wore arm compression to aid relief.
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00:00 I have a condition called lipedema. It's a rarely diagnosed fibrotic fat disorder
00:04 that grows the legs and sometimes the arms really big. Lipedema fat isn't
00:09 losable so you can't diet or exercise it away. Most people have seen lipedema but
00:14 they don't know it. 11% of all people assigned female at birth are said to
00:17 have it. Very few people assigned male at birth have lipedema. It's often dismissed
00:22 as obesity and ignored due to medical fat phobia. Here I am putting on arm
00:26 compression to help reduce swelling and hopefully slow the growth of my arms.