MAFS' Lizzie reveals painful truth behind her illness

Penny Burfitt
·Lifestyle & Entertainment Producer
Lizzie has opened up about the difficulty of living with chronic illness. Photo: Instagram/lizalizzieelizabeth
Lizzie has opened up about the difficulty of living with chronic illness. Photo: Instagram/lizalizzieelizabeth

MAFS star, Lizzie, has shared raw images of her medical condition to Instagram in a bid to start up a conversation about how “it’s ok not to be ok.”

The 27-year-old has always been honest about her chronic health conditions, and in her new video she has opened up about the reality of life with chronic illness, and reached out to others who are suffering.

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To everyone out there dealing with chronic illness, I hear you, I feel for you, I know you. I know the pain all too well, I know the stigma all too well. Let me say this loud and proud. You are all amazing and you are all worth it! I’m talking ALL chronic illness. Whether it be mental, whether it be autoimmune, blood. EVERYTHING. Some of my issues occur on the skin and nails and are photosensitive. The first pic is a reaction from bandaid glue and the sun, the second on my face is from sunscreen and the sun (contradictory I know but it’s true) the third is a discoid mixed with a psoriasis (I know psoriasis can be treated with light mine is not the case, it is also not a true psoriasis it is psoriatic in nature mixed with a discoid rash, my hairline in the back has receded due to the overexpose of sun) the fourth is my nail beds when I’m too cold and can’t regulate my temperature.

A post shared by Elizabeth (@lizalizzieelizabeth) on Apr 11, 2019 at 8:43pm PDT

In the brutally honest video Lizzie explains how she sometimes suffered pain so intense she would want to fall to the ground and scream out in pain, and insists: “it doesn’t make you less of a person”.

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Alongside the video the reality star shared candid images of the effects of her two chronic health conditions, and she doesn’t shy away.

“To everyone out there dealing with chronic illness, I hear you, I feel for you, I know you,” the caption reads.

The MAFS star included images of an inflamed piercing, an inflammation on her face, psoriasis on the nape of her neck, and her nails in the post.

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Hey guys! I love that everyone is loving my new look…. it’s such a fun process for me to try out different looks and be artistic. Now, I just wanted to let people know that my hair extensions are still there. All that has changed has been my colour and length. I’ve had the top darkened to give a more balayage feel. The amount of tape hair extensions I had when originally changing the colour is still there. Why I feel that I had to address this is because I do indeed have a medical condition where I loose my hair due to overexposure of light, and I have a rash predominantly on the back of my nape travelling to my ears, it covers most of my scalp, but the bulk of the rash is at the back of my head. It is not pleasant and it never leaves and I have to treat it with a steroid every second day. The extensions act a way similar to a hat. Due to the bulk of hair it offers my scalp more of a form of protection. #youlikemyhairgeethanksjustboughtit

A post shared by Elizabeth (@lizalizzieelizabeth) on Mar 15, 2019 at 11:12pm PDT

Lizzie suffers from Porphyria, a blood disorder that can affect the skin and nervous system, and a mild form of Lupus.

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The star has earlier revealed that the stressful environment of the MAFS set took a further toll on her health and led to the infections.

Both conditions mean Elizabeth needs to be wary of sunlight, and explains why she chooses to wear hair extensions that protect her scalp from the sun.

The reality star has almost 200k followers, 2000 of which have already liked the post within the hour.

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