Celebs aren’t immune from health battles.
In addition to revealing they caught COVID-19 , many celebs have been vulnerable enough to scare the health problems they’ve been inflicted with.
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Selma Blair, for instance, revealed she has MS in 2019. Justin Bieber went public with Lyme disease in 2020.
For more, here are 10+ celebs who had (or still have) severe health battles.
1. Selena Gomez – lupus
The “Rare” singer was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in 2013. Since then, she’s had an ongoing health battle with the condition.
In 2017, her best friend, Grownish star Francia Raisia, donated her kidney to Gomez.
2. Nick Jonas – type 1 diabetes
The singer has never been shy about sharing his struggles with type 1 diabetes.
This includes how the disease almost killed him at the age of 13. “I was very close to a coma, like a day away, if I hadn’t gone to the hospital,” he told Cigar Aficionado .
3. Lady Gaga – fibromyalgia
“Chronic pain is no joke,” the singer revealed to Vogue in 2018. This is a condition that affects the nervous system, resulting in pain all over the body.
She even had to postpone several of her European tour dates over it.
4. Avril Lavigne – Lyme disease
One tick bite was all it took to leave the singer bedridden for two years .
“I’m achy, I’m fatigued, I cannot get the [expletive] out of bed — what the [expletive] is wrong with me?” she asked doctors back in 2014.
After receiving her diagnosis, she reached out to reality star Yolanda Hadid, who has been a vocal sufferer of the invisible disease.
She ended up recommending Avril to a specialist who helped her get on the road to recovery .
5. Sarah Hyland – kidney dysplasia
The Modern Family star was born with the condition , which means that her kidneys didn’t develop normally when she was in the womb.
It’s affected her ever since. In 2012, she had to undergo two kidney transplants since the first one her dad gave her didn’t take.
“I was very depressed,” she told *Self* about the fear of her second kidney transplant failing.
“When a family member gives you a second chance at life, and it fails, it almost feels like it’s your fault. It’s not. But it does,” she said .
6. Lil Wayne – epilepsy
The rapper has dealt with epilepsy since he was a child. Sadly, these seizure episodes have resulted in multiple trips to the hospital over the years.
In 2016, a severe episode even caused his private jet to make an emergency landing.
7. Justin Bieber – Lyme disease
In 2020, the singer went public with his battle with the tick-borne illness.
At the time, he was also dealing with chronic mono, which affected his “skin, brain function, energy, and overall health.”
8. Pink – asthma
While she loves exercise and performing, the chronic illness has slowed her down.
“I have to be able to run up those stairs as many times as I do and be able to sing at the same time. I’m an asthmatic,” she told Women’s Health in 2009.
9. Bella Hadid – Lyme disease
The model has the same disease as her mother, Yolanda. This was first revealed on an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , where Yolanda was a cast member.
Since then, Bella has spoken out about the illness’s impact on her life.
“Life isn’t always what it looks like on the outside,” she said while receiving an award from the Global Lyme Alliance.
“And the hardest part of this journey is to be judged by the way you look instead of the way you feel,” she continued .
10. Venus Williams – Sjögren’s Syndrome
This is an autoimmune disease, which often causes dry eyes and dry mouth, along with joint pain.
“Some mornings I feel really sick, like when you don’t get a lot of sleep or you have a flu or cold,” she told the New York Times in 2011.
11. Kate Beckinsale – ruptured ovarian cyst
In 2019, the actress had a really scary health scare.
“Turns out a ruptured ovarian cyst really hurts and morphine makes me cry. So thankful to everyone who looked after me #wobbly,” she captioned this heartbreaking image of her in the hospital.
That’s not all. She suffered from anorexia when she was 15.
In an interview with The Independent , she said that she stopped eating as a result of trauma from her father’s death.
“Had I been older when I had a breakdown I think I would have been an alcoholic,” she added.
12. Selma Blair – MS
The Legally Blonde actress spent many years wondering what was wrong with her before being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in 2019.
“I was really struggling with, ‘How am I gonna get by in life?” she said to GMA .
13. Michael J. Fox – Parkinsons disease
This is a brain disorder that causes the actor’s body to never stop moving.
When he was first diagnosed with the disorder in 1991, Fox felt incredibly alone. Thankfully, he’s had lots of support since then and has since formed the Parkinson’s research and advocacy organization.
14. Emila Clarke
For several years, the Game of Thrones alum was secretly suffering from life-threatening brain aneurysms.
She even had to undergo brain surgery. “I lost all hope. I couldn’t look anyone in the eye,” she told The New Yorker in 2019.
“There was terrible anxiety, panic attacks. I was raised never to say, ‘It’s not fair,'” she continued.
Thankfully, she has since made a full recovery.
“In the years since my second surgery, I have healed beyond my most unreasonable hopes.”
