About the Founder
Mary Alexander, MSN, RN
Nurse · Educator · Researcher · Author
For more than 40 years, Mary Alexander has been a registered nurse. For more than 20 of those years, she has worked in aesthetics.
But her work with cellulite began with a question she couldn't answer for herself.
Mary developed cellulite in her early 20s. Like so many women, she was told—directly or indirectly—that the answer was to lose weight, exercise more, or simply accept it.
As she got older, her cellulite became more noticeable. Then Mary discovered something she had never learned in nursing school and had never been taught to look for as a nurse or aesthetics professional:
She had lipedema.
So she started looking for answers.
What she found was surprising.
There was remarkably little accessible, comprehensive information about cellulite—and even less about the connection between cellulite, lipedema, fat distribution, connective tissue, skin laxity, lymphatic function and the other factors that can influence the appearance and progression of the condition.
Much of what she encountered in the aesthetics world centered around individual devices and treatments. And despite the fact that cellulite affects the vast majority of adult women, it was not something she had been taught in nursing school. It wasn't something most physicians she knew had been taught either.
Even lipedema remains poorly understood in the United States, with limited recognition within the healthcare system.
So Mary did what nurses do.
She researched.
She spent hundreds of hours studying cellulite and lipedema and digging into research, clinical information and emerging approaches from around the world—including work from Germany, Brazil, China, Japan and Korea.
The more she learned, the more convinced she became that women had been given an overly simple explanation for a very complex problem.
Cellulite is not a failure of willpower.
It is not simply about being overweight.
It is not simply about fitness.
And telling women to "lose weight and exercise" does not explain why cellulite can affect women of every size—even very fit women—or why it can change throughout a woman's life.
Cellulite involves the interaction of multiple structures and processes within the skin and underlying tissue. Depending on the woman, factors may include fat cells, connective tissue and fibrous septae, skin laxity, tissue structure, circulation and lymphatic function, hormones, inflammation and changes that occur with aging.
And when lipedema is also present, the picture can become even more complicated.
That research became My Cellulite Center.
Mary founded My Cellulite Center because she believes women deserve something better than shame, oversimplified explanations and one-size-fits-all treatments.
This is not a med spa that happens to offer a cellulite treatment.
Cellulite is the focus.
Her approach begins by asking a different question:
What is actually contributing to this woman's cellulite—and what can be done about it?
Mary is currently completing an in-depth research paper on cellulite supported by more than 50 references, with medical editing underway. She is also writing a book to help women better understand cellulite and the factors that influence it.
Her goal is not to tell women that their bodies are a problem to be fixed.
It is to help them understand their bodies—and give them better options.
"Women have spent decades being told that cellulite is their fault. I don't believe that. I believe women deserve to understand what is happening in their bodies—and to have better options for addressing it."
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