Legally blind two-time Big Brother winner Reggie Bird offers a heartbreaking replace on her well being and divulges she just lately overcame ‘horrible depression’: ‘It’s a battle’

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

The actuality star, who took residence a cool $500,000 because of her two stints on the present, is legally blind after being recognized 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.

Speak in opposition to News.com.au this week Reggie mentioned day by day is a “struggle.”

‘It’s a battle. It is unquestionably difficult to dwell with retinitis pigmentosa. Every day is a problem,” she mentioned.

“So I just have to try to make the most of every day while I can see, because I’m only nine degrees of pinhole vision left and I don’t have peripheral vision or night vision.”

Reggie mentioned she just lately battled a “terrible depression” due to her well being points and due to her son Lucas, 13, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic situation that impacts the lungs and digestive system.

She added, “But I pulled myself out. Hopefully I’ll never go back down that path again. I just think, “Okay, there’s always someone who has it worse than me.” I simply should attempt to keep constructive. I simply can’t let it get to me.”

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

“It’s not what I wanted to hear,” Reggie defined in an emotional clip shared on Instagram.

‘It’s the worst factor you may have. I’m going deafblind,” she continued, earlier than bursting into tears.

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

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

She beforehand hit again at her critics who questioned her ailing well being in an interview with TV week.

“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, she’s faking it.’ Who would want to pretend to be blind?’ she told the publication.

The former fish and chip shop manager, who says her vision now is like looking through straws, added: “They don’t know me, or the challenges I face every day.

“I think people who leave comments like that are in trouble.”