Legally blind two-time Huge Brother winner Reggie Chicken offers a heartbreaking replace on her well being and divulges she just lately overcame ‘horrible melancholy’: ‘It is a battle’

Former Huge Brother star and two-time winner Reggie Chicken has given followers a heartbreaking replace on her well being. 

The truth star, who has taken house a cool $500,000 because of her two stints on the present, is legally blind after being identified with retinitis pigmentosa, a uncommon degenerative eye illness that causes extreme imaginative and prescient impairment.

She additionally has Usher syndrome, a uncommon genetic illness that impacts each listening to and imaginative and prescient.

Talking to News.com.au this week, Reggie stated that every single day is a ‘battle’.

‘It is a battle. It is a positively a problem residing with retinitis pigmentosa. Every single day is a problem,’ she stated. 

Former Huge Brother star and two-time winner Reggie Chicken has given followers a heartbreaking replace on her well being. She suffers from retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome and overcame melancholy

‘So I’ve simply gotta try to benefit from every single day, whereas I can see, as a result of I’ve simply bought 9 levels of pinhole imaginative and prescient left, and I haven’t got any peripheral imaginative and prescient or evening imaginative and prescient.’  

Reggie stated she just lately battled ‘horrible melancholy’ due to her well being woes and resulting from her son Lucas, 13, affected by has cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic dysfunction that impacts the lungs and digestive system. 

She added: ‘However I pulled myself out of it. Hopefully I will by no means return down that path ever once more. I simply assume, ”OK, there’s at all times somebody worse off on the planet than me.” I simply must try to keep constructive. I simply can’t let it get to me.’

Talking to Information.com.au this week, Reggie stated that every single day is a ‘battle’. ‘It is a battle. It is a positively a problem residing with retinitis pigmentosa. Every single day is a problem,’ she stated

In October, Reggie was left heartbroken when she found she had Usher syndrome, a uncommon genetic illness that impacts each listening to and imaginative and prescient.

‘It is not what I needed to listen to,’ Reggie defined in an emotional clip shared to Instagram.

‘It is the worst factor that you might have. I’ll be deaf-blind,’ she continued, earlier than breaking down into tears.

‘So I’ve simply gotta try to benefit from every single day, whereas I can see, as a result of I’ve simply bought 9 levels of pinhole imaginative and prescient left, and I haven’t got any peripheral imaginative and prescient or evening imaginative and prescient,’ she stated. Pictured on Huge Brother

Reggie made historical past when she turned the primary actuality star to win Huge Brother twice, the primary time in 2003 and once more in 2022.

Regardless of taking house $250,000 in prize cash in the course of the 2003 and 2022 seasons of Huge Brother, the TV persona has struggled financially over time. 

She beforehand hit again at her critics who doubted her dangerous run of well being in an interview with TV Week.

‘Lots of people are saying, “Oh, she’s faking it.” Who would need to faux being blind?’ she informed the publication.

The previous fish and chip store supervisor, who says her imaginative and prescient is now like wanting by straws, added: ‘They do not know me, or the challenges I cope with every single day.

‘I feel individuals who depart feedback like which have points.’

Reggie made historical past when she turned the primary actuality star to win Huge Brother twice, the primary time in 2003 (pictured) and once more in 2022. The TV persona has struggled financially over time regardless of profitable $500K over time