Doja Cat said she likely suffers from lipedema—a progressive condition that causes abnormal fat buildup in the lower part of the body—and the disease led her to undergo liposuction in 2023.
Doja Cat is getting into her insecurities.
Specifically, why she sought liposuction on her thighs and butt in 2023, explaining that she may be unknowingly suffering from lipedema—a progressive condition that causes abnormal fat buildup in the lower part of the body—instead.
“Lipedema runs in my family,” the rapper shared in a March 9 TikTok video. “I always thought that it was cellulite.”
Looking back, Doja Cat (real name Amala Dlamini) said her legs and bottom began filling out in her early teen years, though she continued to maintain a “little waist.”
“It wasn’t like a horrible thing. I just felt like it stuck out,” she continued. “I had big ass knees.”
In fact, Doja Cat said she was often ridiculed for her thicker legs, recalling the time she was looking to have a custom latex suit made for her “Go to Town” music only for the manufacturer to tell her, “‘Your measurements aren’t real.'”
The Grammy winner also revealed someone once joked that she looked like Spongebob Squarepants‘ Squidward when he “ate the Krabby Patties and it went straight to his thighs.”
“That’s what lipedema looks like,” she explained. “I wasn’t horrendously, deeply overweight or anything. I was just building up all this ass and ankle and calves and knee and thigh. I had a whole ton of it.”
Guessing that she was “probably at stage 1 or stage 2” of the disease when she underwent liposuction, Doja Cat continued, “I had no clue, and nobody brought up lipedema to me.”
Now, the “Paint the Town Red” artist said her butt “looks kind of weird” from “the history of having all that ass.”
“That’s due to all of the extra skin from when I had all of that extra fat,” she noted. “I love wearing tights because it keeps all of that together.”
Doja Cat added, “It’s a slippery slope—liposuction and things like that—but I guess it’s just lymphatic build up and there’s a lot of things you can do to help with that.”
By Mary Mumbua
