While their lives seem perfect, many celebrities face different circumstances that affect them.
Right, rather than hiding their diagnosis, some choose to use their social platforms to raise awareness about the diseases they suffer from and, in a sense, set an example and inspiration for anyone going through the same situation.
Here are some cases:
Selena Gomez – Lupus
The singer and actress has always boldly faced the disease from which she suffers: lupus. She has even allowed her fans to follow her through the process and treatment of a serious illness affecting her immune system.
This diagnosis usually presents in different ways and generally affects the organs of the body that are healthy, deteriorating their normal functioning. That is why the singer announced in September 2017 that she had been operated after a kidney transplant.
One of her best friends decided to give one to her, to which Selena said, “There are no words to describe how grateful I am to my beautiful friend Francia Raisa.”
Kim Kardashian – Psoriasis
The most popular of the Kardashian clan revealed in her reality Keeping up with the Kardashians suffering from psoriasis, a disease that affects his skin and causes discoloration and scaling.
Brad Pitt – Prosopagnosia
In interview for Esquirethe actor confessed that he suffers from this condition, which can be from birth or the product of brain damage after an injury, so that he cannot recognize people’s faces or easily forget them.
Faced with this, he assured, “There are so many people who hate me because they think I don’t respect them.” In addition, he added, “The truth is, it is a mystery to me. I can’t get a face ”.
Bella Thorne – Dyslexia
The actress, who became known as one of the Disney stars at a very young age, suffers from dyslexia. This learning disability prevents her from reading properly because the order of letters, syllables or words is changed for her.
In his book The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray (2019), says she struggled to overcome this condition from a very young age. The technique he used was to read scripts repeatedly and count money to get familiar with the numbers.
Holes Matarazzo – Cleidocraneal dysplasia
One of the actors of Weird stuff (2016), who plays “Dustin”, suffers from one of the strangest diseases affecting only one person in a million.
This condition affects bone development, so it can take time for the skull, collarbones and teeth to develop. The actor had to undergo several operations to overcome the difficulties that this disease has brought him.