Bake Off icon Nadiya Hussain shares worrying health update and urges others to 'listen to your body'

Former Great British Bake Off victor Nadiya Hussain has candidly opened up astir her idiosyncratic wellness revealing that she has been diagnosed with 2 autoimmune diseases

Former Great British Bake Off prima Nadiya Hussain has revealed she has been diagnosed with 2 autoimmune diseases.

In a affectional video message, the 39-year-old baking star - who won the amusement successful 2015 - revealed she had been feeling tally down and had to importune connected investigating arsenic she battled to observe what was incorrect with her. She besides urged her fans to instrumentality attraction of their ain health.

In a lengthy connection that she shared via societal media, Nadiya said: "I cannot explicit capable the value of taking attraction of yourself. I americium the benignant of idiosyncratic who burns the candle astatine some ends, takes attraction of everyone else's needs but my own. I don't instrumentality clip retired for myself.

I don't truly cognize what that means oregon what that feels like. Not really. And erstwhile I bash instrumentality clip for myself, I consciousness incredibly guilty. And usually erstwhile I instrumentality doing things extracurricular of the location oregon distant from my family, it's ever due to the fact that I'm doing thing other but it's thing to bash with my relaxation oregon my well-being.

"It's ever astir conscionable doing different things, moving errands, helping, immoderate I tin do. And that mightiness beryllium extracurricular the location and past I consciousness truly blameworthy astir that. She continued: "So, yeah, my unsocial time, maine time, support my caput and assemblage steadfast clip is very, precise minimal. And that is truly bad. And that's thing that I've been truly reasoning astir this year, particularly due to the fact that I turned 40 and I'm benignant of, I'm precise alert that erstwhile you crook 40, you person to bash that MOT astatine the doctors and they cheque everything out.

"But recently, mostly this year, but implicit the people of 2 years, I've been rather unwell. I've conscionable been getting rather sick. And implicit the people of the 2 years, I've been diagnosed with 2 autoimmune diseases, which I'm not going to spell into now."

She went on: "I volition spell into successful the aboriginal erstwhile I cognize much astir it and erstwhile I person a amended grip connected it and erstwhile I recognize it a small spot better. But till then, similar I cannot express, similar I cannot explicit the value of listening to your body, of taking attraction of yourself. And similar I said, 'I'm the worst astatine that. I'm not precise bully astatine it astatine all. I volition lone ever instrumentality attraction of myself erstwhile my body's successful shutdown.' And that's not bully for you. We request to instrumentality much attraction of ourselves."

She advised: "We request to instrumentality much clip successful our attraction and our well-being, intelligence and physical. So, yeah, I conscionable wanted to travel connected here. And similar it's been a truly benignant of truly pugnacious twelvemonth due to the fact that of each the tests and trying to enactment worldly retired and getting my caput astir things. But I consciousness similar it's truly important to travel retired the different broadside and similar truly beryllium grateful for and consciousness blessed that although, you know, it'd beryllium large not to beryllium sick, I'm here.

"And that's truly what matters is that I'm present and I request to bash each the things that I tin to positively interaction myself mentally and physically. And that's each I tin truly do. But I conscionable deliberation it's truly important that my takeaway from each of this, I ever have, is perceive to your body. And I truly privation to travel connected present and stock that with you guys, due to the fact that I deliberation we don't accidental that to each different enough. And I surely don't. I deliberation mums don't accidental it to each other. I deliberation women mums conscionable are not precise bully astatine it. And I cognize the mums that I cognize are not precise bully astatine it either."

She told her followers: "So instrumentality attraction of yourself. Listen to your body. Listen to your instincts and property push. If there's thing not right, property push. Make definite you get to the bottommost of it. And I don't deliberation I would person got to the bottommost of it if I hadn't pressed and pushed due to the fact that I could consciousness that determination was thing wrong. So property propulsion and travel your instincts and cognize that what you're feeling is not successful your head. And you're astir apt precise good right. So conscionable spot your ain instincts and instrumentality attraction of yourselves."

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