Celebs You Probably Didn't Realise Live With Illnesses

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    Pamela Anderson suffers from Hepatitis C, which affects the liver and can lead to cirrhosis or even liver cancer. Anderson says she got the disease from sharing a tattoo needle with her former husband, Tommy Lee. Anderson said she and Lee had AIDS tests, as well as other disease testing when they got married. Pam says her former husband’s doctor told him he had the virus, but he never disclosed it to her. Lee has denied all of this.

     

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    Entertainer Nick Cannon suffers from the autoimmune disorder, Lupus. He was diagnosed with lupus kidney disease (also called lupus nephritis) in 2012, after his knees began to swell during a New Years vacation in Aspen, Colorado. 

     

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    Actress Halle Berry suffers from Type 2 Diabetes, which means her body is unable to produce enough insulin to process sugar into energy.


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    Kim Kardashian suffers from psoriasis. She revealed her condition on a 2011 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that causes skin to breakout in raised bumps or scaly patches.

     

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    Venus Williams suffers from Sjögren’s Syndrome, which is pronounced show-grins. It’s an autoimmune disorder where a person’s white blood cells attack moisture glands. It results in dry mouth and eyes, but can get a lot worse, affecting the kidneys, central nervous system gastrointestinal system, blood vessels, liver, lungs and pancreas. 

     

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    Lil Wayne has a big problem, he suffers from Epilepsy. In 2013, he was admitted to the ICU at Cedars-Siani hospital in Los Angeles, after suffering from a series of seizures and fell into a coma. He told radio station Power 106 “I’m an epileptic, so I’m prone to seizures.

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    Actor Alec Baldwin suffers from chronic Lyme disease. Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection. Left untreated, it can cause symptoms such as headaches and neck stiffness, pain and swelling in joints, even neurological symptoms such as memory problems.

     

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    Pop star Miley Cyrus revealed to the world that she has Tachycardia, a heart condition that causes the heart to beat faster than normal.

     

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    Modern Family starlet Sarah Hyland has been battling a kidney disease since she was a little girl. She has even had surgery to replace her underdeveloped kidney in 2012. Her loving dad was the donor.

     

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    Atticus Shaffer has Osteogenesis Imperfecta (also known as Brittle Bone Disease), type IV, a genetic condition inherited from his mother, who has type I. Atticus says that the disability is just a small part of who he is. 

     

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