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Catherine Seo

Catherine Seo

Catherine Seo, PhD is founder & CEO of Lipedema Simplified and The Lipedema Project, a psychologist, educator, and lipedema advocate who produced and directed the documentary The Disease They Call FAT.

Aug 24, 2026

4:41
Like how, how did you come to this space?
4:46
Um, thank you, first of all.
4:48
It's wonderful [laughs] to be here and having this conversation and being able to, um, really, hopefully, if one person is listening to this and can hear things in a different way, it will be totally worth it.
5:07
And that's how I started.
5:09
Um, I g- I reached my, uh, late 50s, early 60s, and I had done everything right.
5:18
I had been involved in a 12-step program for eating addiction.
5:23
I had lost and maintained 140-pound weight loss for almost 27 years when everything stopped working.

10 MINS LATER

15:29
H- how did you not walk away with trauma just from that, you know?

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