She eventually reached 577 pounds.Īs a physician who is Board-Certified in Obesity Medicine and has seen over 100,000 urgent care patients, I understand the multifactorial etiology of obesity - the confluence of genetics, epigenetics, behavior, and environment. She cites her rape, and her reaction to her rape, as the reason for her subsequent weight gain. Gay kept this secret throughout her teenage and young adult years. Then, he helped hold her down by the wrists and spat in her face as his friends followed suit, one by one.įeeling humiliated and ashamed, Ms. He bragged to these friends, and then he pushed her to the ground and raped her as they pinned her down. Her then-boyfriend took her on a bicycle ride to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they met some of his friends. When New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay was twelve years old, she was gang-raped. Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members.
