After her drastic weight loss left fans fearful for her health, Elizabeth Sobinoff has further opened up about her chronic illness and how it’s taken a toll on her body.
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Taking to her Instagram page, the former Married At First Sight star— who is set to return to our screens as an intruder on the upcoming season— shared a confronting photo of her hair loss which was coupled with a brutally honest caption about her daily battle with Porphyria.
“This is an unfiltered image of myself. I am someone who struggles on a daily [basis] with chronic health issues,” the brave reality star began.
“I have lost a lot of hair at the back of my neck due to an autoimmune condition and have a rash that is psoriatic in nature that flares up in any light, artificial or natural. I have to treat my scalp every second day with a steroid otherwise it is uncontrollable.”
She concluded: “I know there is a lot of comments thrown about saying sometimes I look sick, well, yes I struggle on a daily. I do the best I can.”
As we know, Lizzie suffers from photosensitivity which she told WHO last year is “a mild cousin of lupus”. According to the brunette beauty, gluten and alcohol can trigger the condition which can also cause her weight to go up or down by 6 kilograms.
“I get a lot of the lupus symptoms and when I’m in a flare-up, I burn, as if you’re holding fire to the skin,” Elizabeth told us. “It’s hard for me to even be near a window.”
She also revealed three months ago that she suffers from Porphyria— a condition which also commonly results in weight fluctuation.
“There’s been a lot of curiosity out there, people saying to me, ‘How have you lost a bit of weight?'” she revealed earlier this year. “What I want to put out there is that I have porphyria, and how you manage porphyria is with a high carb diet. I use chocolate because my body can tolerate it right now. Before I get the ‘there are healthier alternatives’, it is working for me currently, and I get scared to try a lot of foods because my body also rejects ‘healthy food’ too, it’s not biased.
“Also lots of people out there have to be on medication, and unfortunately weight gain can be a common side effect for a lot of chronic illness meds or chronic illness in general. Sometimes the weight gain in this can be more than 20 kilograms.”
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