Other celebrities battling lupus

Celebrities battling lupus

Celebrities battling Lupus – Selena Gomez’s struggle with lupus has interrupted two of her concert tours and forced her to undergo chemotherapy to control the disease.

Celebrities battling lupus

Celebrities battling lupus

Celebrities battling lupus

Singer Toni Braxton has been hospitalized several times to bring her lupus under control. She told the world about her condition in 2010 and in 2014 wrote “Unbreak My Heart,” a memoir in which she revealed that her uncle died from the disease.

Celebrities battling lupus

“Third Rock from the Sun” star Kristen Johnston had to take a break from work in 2013 when she developed a rare form of lupus that attacks the spinal cord. After chemotherapy, she has said she’s in remission.

Celebrities battling lupus

Soccer star Shannon Boxx has been battling lupus since she was 30 years old. She went public with her condition in 2012, continuing to play for the U.S. women’s soccer team and working with lupus organizations to spread awareness of the disease.

Celebrities battling lupus

The scars of a skin form of lupus left a distinctive pattern on British singer Seal’s face. The singer has battled the disease since he was a child.

Celebrities battling lupus

Former model and “Extra” correspondent Terri Seymour says she nearly lost her life to lupus in her early 20s, and has struggled with flares since.

Celebrities battling lupus

Actress Mary Elizabeth McDonough, best known for her work on “The Waltons,” has been advocating for those with lupus since that time. She struggled with many typical symptoms of the disease for years before getting a diagnosis.

Celebrities battling lupus

John Wayne’s oldest son Michael suffered from lupus for years before dying of complications of the disease at age 68. Michael collaborated with his famous father on several well-known films, such as “The Green Berets” and “The Train Robbers.”

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