FIRST PERSON | Learning I had a rare genetic condition changed how I saw myself as a physician, woman and mom

FIRST PERSON | Learning I had a rare genetic condition changed how I saw myself as a physician, woman and mom

Bethany Oeming has often fielded questions from people wondering what the secret was to her muscular body. At 36, when she was pregnant with her second child, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation called familial partial lipodystrophy. Suddenly, what she thought was simply her “body type” was reframed as a lifelong medical condition.