Her other battle is with an auto-immune condition, a mild form of Lupus that is also ignited by sunlight exposure. Both conditions can affect her mood and behaviour.
The end result is that she can be plagued by burning and blistering skin, and at its worst she has lost clumps of hair from her scalp – necessitating the use of extensions.
‘It’s hard when you wake up with clumps in your bed,’ she told Nine.
‘A lot of people also said, “You’ve had your lips done”, but that’s swelling, and you can even see at the beginning when filming the wedding when I’m doing my makeup my skin is smooth.
‘As I’m talking to the makeup artist, you can see red blotches coming up and that’s literally within half an hour of the light hitting my skin.’
She now avoids sunlight, and uses creams to manage flare ups.
'I want to talk about this to help others know you can still be confident', she explains.