Celebrities Living with Medical Conditions
This list was compiled to motivate and encourage those who living with medical conditions to be strong. Some of these diseases don’t have cure however you need to remember to go for check up and take treatment for you to live your life to the fullest. If these celebrities can do it you too can do it, here is the list of celebrities living with medical conditions
Lil Wayne: Epilepsy
After Lil Wayne was admitted to the hospital in critical condition on March 13, 2013 for suffering three seizures in a row, the media speculated that the cause of his health scare was his constant consumption of cough syrup a.k.a. purple drank or sizzurp. While he is known to use the drug, the chart-topping rapper revealed in a Power 106 radio interview that he suffers from epilepsy, and that he’s had “a bunch of seizures” that the public never hears about.
Missy Elliot: Graves’ Disease
There’s a reason why Missy Elliot stepped out of the spotlight for a while. She was fighting a battle with a pretty serious condition: Graves’ Disease. This is an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland and can cause such symptoms as fatigue, goiter, and eye problems. She was so sick at one point that she couldn’t write or drive a car. There is no cure for the disease, but there are treatments
Magic Johnson: HIV
Magic Johnson has been living with HIV for 22 years and he is still going strong due to a daily cocktail of medicines, giving hope to those with the disease, showing that it is not necessarily an instant death sentence.
Toni Braxton: Lupus and Heart Disease
While starring in the Broadway show Aida in 2003, Toni Braxton passed out, feeling light-headed, fatigued and tightness in her chest. A trip to the emergency room revealed that she had pericarditis, an inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart. In 2008, the singer was diagnosed with microvascular angina also known as small vessel disease and in 2010 it was revealed that Braxton also had lupus.
Jack Osbourne: Multiple Sclerosis
At just 26 years old and only three weeks after his first child was born, Jack Osbourne, son of Ozzy Osbourne, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. MS is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s own immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control, vision, balance and sensation, as well as causing numbness.
David Beckham: OCD and Tourette’s Syndrome
David Beckham has been diagnosed with both Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome. He has said he has to have things lined up or in pairs; and when he checks into a hotel room, he has to put all of the books and leaflets away into a drawer before he can relax.
Lady Gaga: Lupus
In 2010, Gaga admitted to Larry King that she had been diagnosed with borderline lupus, but said she didn’t experience any of the symptoms. Later in 2013, the singer was diagnosed with synovitis, a painful inflammation of the joints that was apparently the result of a hip injury she suffered but can also be caused by lupus.
Michael J Fox: Parkinson’s Disease
Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1991 when he was only 30 years old, though he didn’t break the news to the world until 1998. Most people aren’t diagnosed with this debilitating disease until their 50s. Parkinson’s is a disorder of the brain that progressively worsens and causes the characteristic tremors, difficulty walking and effects on movement and coordination.
Pamela Anderson: Hepatitis C
Pamela Anderson revealed in 2002 that she has Hepatitis C and that she got it through sharing a tattoo needle with ex husband Tommy Lee. Hep C is a viral infection that has no cure. Often times it will cause few to no symptoms, but with a chronic infection, scarring of the liver can occur, known as cirrhosis.
Shannen Doherty: Crohn’s Disease
In 1999, Shannen broke the news that she has Crohn’s Disease, an autoimmune disease that causes an inflammation of the intestinal tract and symptoms that include severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea. There is no cure, but the disease can go into temporary remission on its own for periods of time
Kim Kardashian: Psoriasis
Kim Kardashian has psoriasis. Psoriasis is actually an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system thinks that the skin is a pathogen. She will periodically get breakouts and rashes due to the condition.
Nick Cannon: Lupus
The host of “America’s Got Talent” and Mariah Carey’s husband, Nick Cannon revealed he had a form of lupus that affects his kidneys. 31-year-old actor was diagnosed with lupus after suffering from kidney failure
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body skin, joints or organs.
Venus Williams: Sjögren’s syndrome
The tennis star was forced to withdraw from the US Open in 2011 due her issue with Sjögren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack its own moisture-producing glands, i.e. tear, saliva and sweat glands. The disease caused her debilitating joint pain, swelling, numbness and fatigue but she was able to receive treatment, although there is no cure.
Nick Jonas: Type 1 Diabetes
Nick Jonas was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 13 and wears an insulin pump to manage his condition. Type 1 diabetes develops due to an autoimmune disorder that destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, leaving the body unable to produce enough insulin to process the sugars we eat, requiring people with this disease to take injections of insulin..
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Celiac
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” has had a decade-long struggle with celiac disease.
Celiac disease is a condition that damages the lining of the small intestine, preventing the body from properly absorbing food. The damage is due to a body’s reaction to gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye.
Halle Berry: Diabete
Oscar winning actress Halle Berry was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 22 years old when she became ill while working on the TV show “Living Dolls.
In 2007, Berry reportedly claimed to have weaned herself off insulin, saying she longer had Type 1 diabetes, and instead had Type 2.
Montel Williams: Multiple Sclerosis
In 1999, daytime talk show host Montel Williams went public with his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.
As with other autoimmune disorders, multiple sclerosis occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the person’s healthy tissue.
Hugo Weaving: Epilepsy
Actor Hugo Weaving, known for starring in blockbuster movies such as “The Matrix” and “Lord of the Rings,” was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was 13 years old.
Epilepsy is a condition that produces seizures affecting a person’s mental and physical functions.
Jillian Michaels: polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis
Fitness guru Jillian Michaels suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis.
Polycystic ovary syndrome, when a woman’s female sex hormones are out of balance, can cause changes to the menstrual cycle and the skin, along with small cysts in the ovaries and trouble getting pregnant.
Endometriosis occurs when cells from the lining of the uterus become displaced and grow in other areas of the abdomen or body, leading to pain, irregular bleeding, and problems getting pregnant.
Prince: Epilepsy
In a 2009 interview with Tavis Smiley, the eccentric and iconic Prince shared that he was born epileptic, suffering seizures as a child. He was teased in school for his condition but coped with it by developing an eccentric, larger-than-life personality.
