Celebrities Living With Diseases

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David Beckham: OCD and Tourette's Syndrome 
He 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.



Kim Kardashian: 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.



Pamela Anderson: Hepatitis C 

She revealed in 2002 that she has Hepatitis C.She got it through sharing a tattoo needle with ex husband Tommy Lee. Hep C is a viral infection which has no cure.It will cause few to no symptoms, but with a chronic infection, scarring of the liver can occur, known as cirrhosis.


Jack Osbourne: Multiple Sclerosis
It 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


Missy Elliot: Graves' Disease
This is an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland and can cause such symptoms as fatigue, goiter, and eye problems.There is no cure for the disease but she's undergoing treatments to live her life



Michael J Fox: Parkinson's Disease
He was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1991 when he was only 30 years old, though he didn't the world until 1998. Mostly people are diagnosed with this debilitating disease after 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.



Shannen Doherty: Crohn's Disease
She revealed the news that she has Crohn's Disease in 1999, an autoimmune disease that causes an inflammation of the intestinal tract and symptoms that include severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea. There is not curable, but the disease can go into temporary remission on its own for periods of time.



Magic Johnson: HIV

He revealed he's diagonised with HIV positive back in 1991 and still going strong due to a daily cocktail of medicines


Nick Jonas: Type 1 Diabetes

He 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..