Selma Blair - Multiple Sclerosis
For years, Selma Blair suffered from tiny, nonspecific maladies that she blamed on clumsiness or a pinched nerve. She told Variety that the left side of her body would behave as if it were "asking for directions from a broken GPS." She was eventually diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a neurological condition. Blair shared her diagnosis on Instagram as a way to thank her costume designer, Allisa Swanson. Blair wrote in the post: "[Swanson] gets my legs in my pants, pulls my tops over my head, [and] buttons my coats." The Cruel Intentions and Hell Boy actress, who now walks with a cane, has continued to speak up on social media about living with her disease and has worked on charity initiatives for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, among others. MS can reduce patients' life expectancy, yet many live well into their 70s and beyond.
Selma Blair Multiple Sclerosis
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Mariah Carey - Bipolar Disorder
"I have never seen one person have to deal with so much and have the weight of the world on their shoulders and cameras constantly in their face -- every angle you turn, there is someone snapping a picture, wanting you to be on, and she does it with so much grace and so much poise," said Nick Cannon during a 2018 interview with Entertainment Tonight's Today show. He was alluding to Mariah Carey, a five-time Grammy-winning singer with whom he had been married for eight years. Underneath that composure, Carey was battling bipolar disorder. "Until recently, I lived in denial, isolation, and constant fear that someone would expose me," she told People magazine in 2018. "I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me, and I got back to doing what I love—writing songs and making music."
Mariah Carey Bipolar Disorder
