Nadiya Hussain has been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases after being 'quite unwell' for a couple of years
'Great British Bake Off' winner Nadiya Hussain has been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases after being "quite unwell" for a couple of years.
Nadiya Hussain has been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases after being "quite unwell" for a couple of years.
The 'Great British Bake Off' winner - who triumphed on the show in 2015 - has urged others to take good care of themselves following her double diagnosis, because she "cannot express the importance of listening to your body".
She said in an Instagram video: "I cannot express enough the importance of taking care of yourself. I am the kind of person who burns the candle at both ends, takes care of everyone else's needs but my own.
"I don't take time out for myself. I don't really know what that means or what that feels like. Not really. And when I do take time for myself, I feel incredibly guilty.
"But recently, mostly this year, but over the course of two years, I've been quite unwell. I've just been getting quite sick.
"And over the course of the two years, I've been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases, which I'm not going to go into now.
"I will go into in the future when I know more about it and when I have a better handle on it and when I understand it a little bit better.
"But till then, like I cannot express, like I cannot express the importance of listening to your body, of taking care of yourself.
"And like I said, I'm the worst at that. I'm not very good at it at all. I will only ever take care of myself when my body's in shutdown. And that's not good for you. We need to take more care of ourselves."
Nadiya admitted it has been a "really tough year" because she has been undergoing tests, but the star feels "grateful" to be here.
She added: "So, yeah, I just wanted to come on here.
"And like it's been a really kind of really tough year because of all the tests and trying to work stuff out and getting my head around things.
"But I feel like it's really important to come out the other side and like really be grateful for and feel blessed that although, you know, it'd be great not to be sick, I'm here."
