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.”