21 Celebrities With Autoimmune Diseases

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6. Ann Romney

During the course her husband Mitt Romney’s campaign, it was revealed that wife Ann needed to slow down and take time off from the campaign to tend to her MS. She was diagnosed back in 1998 and her husband, Mitt Romney stated that these were the worse days in his life.

She is a board member of the New England chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She was diagnosed at age 49, after experiencing numbness and fatigue. While the average age at which a patient is diagnosed is 37, Romney is at the middle of her career, married and raising children.

She always emphasizes the role that her horses play in her battle with the disease. She says that spending time with them has helped her cope with the disease.


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