After spending months in space, Sunita Williams discusses her most recent health update and the changes she has noticed in her body.

After one of its astronauts had to respond to claims that she had lost too much weight in space, NASA appears to be embroiled in yet another health crisis.

NASA is keeping an eye on the health and medical privacy of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two astronauts who have been stuck on the ISS for months after Boeing's troubled Starliner, the spacecraft they flew up in, was judged too dangerous for their return trip, according to the New York Post.

There has been a lot of tabloid conjecture in recent weeks regarding the astronauts' looks and health, especially with regard to Williams. The female astronaut made an effort to allay speculation that she had shed a lot of weight during a teleconference earlier this week.

During the news conference, Williams stated, "I'm the same weight that I was when I got up here," She went on to say that the way microgravity alters the body's water distribution could be one of several factors influencing how she appears in pictures.

However, it appears that NASA is worried about possibly sensitive medical information leaking to the media in addition to the health and safety of its astronauts. Anyone discovered disclosing astronaut health information could face termination, an insider told the NYP on condition of anonymity.

NASA issued a second remark following the publication of this report.

JD Polk, NASA's chief health and medical officer, stated that "all NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are in good health." Otherwise, it's regrettable that rumors continue to circulate. As we are ready to explore further into the solar system, NASA and our partners have been successfully conducting long-duration missions onboard the orbiting laboratory for decades, examining the impact of space on the human body. Dedicated flight surgeons on Earth keep a close eye on crew health, and they follow a customized diet and exercise program to be healthy during their trips.

In order to refute the claims that she had lost weight, Williams seems obligated to highlight some particular bodily changes she had undergone while on the ISS, as Gizmodo pointed out in its own report of the fiasco.

"I could definitely tell that weightlifting, which is not something that I do all the time, has definitely changed me," the astronaut stated on the NASA live feed. This is in reference to the fact that astronauts must follow a rigorous exercise program while in orbit in order to counteract the negative health consequences of space flight. "My thighs are a little bit bigger, my butt is a little bit bigger."

Space sexism is nothing new, but Gizmodo noted that it's a regrettable return to the excessive physical attention pioneering female astronauts like Sally Ride endured, where she and countless others in her wake were scrutinized over their dress sizes and weights while their male coworkers received no such attention.

This scandal is noteworthy because it occurred only a few weeks after another set of NASA astronauts, including Jeanette Epps, another woman of color, were mysteriously hospitalized after returning to Earth after one of them had a health problem.

The woman hasn't been singled out in that instance, at least, if only because NASA is keeping quiet about what transpired and who was affected.