Dealing With Gestational Diabetes
Kelly was diagnosed with gestational diabetes “well into my third trimester,” she told People in September 2022, “so it wasn’t like I developed it as some people get it from the get-go when they’re pregnant. I got it in my third trimester and basically, I thought it was something that I had done wrong.”
Her only pregnancy craving had been sugar, especially sweet drinks, Kelly explained, and even though she tried to temper it by drinking fresh-pressed juice, “it still had a lot more sugar than I needed.”
Once she made purposeful changes in her diet, she continued, she suffered from a sugar-withdrawal headache for awhile but ultimately lost 10 pounds, stopped having to wear compression socks and her skin cleared up.
“I wish I had this kind of incentive prior because I’ve never been able to stick to anything a hundred percent the way that I have been doing this because I’m not doing it for myself,” Kelly said. “I’m doing it for my baby. But I have learned—I can’t even begin to tell you the changes that it’s made.”