Reggie Big Brother Blind: What Is Wrong With Her Eyes? Reggie Big Brother Eye Disease

Reggie Big Brother Eye Disease: Reggie Big Brother got very emotional discussing her post-show diagnosis with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare and hereditary eye disease that often causes blindness.

“I’ve now lost all of my peripheral vision, I have no night vision. I could wake up tomorrow and it’s going to be gone,” she said, before tearing up and adding, “Oh I’m going to cry!”.

Reggie Big Brother Eye Disease

Reggie was first diagnosed with the eye condition one year after she won Big Brother, and she has since lost 90 per cent of her central vision.

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She previously appeared on The Daily Edition in 2016 to discuss her ailment and the challenges she has faced.

“Sometimes when I forget to take my cane to the shops and I bang into people… they look at me because I’m so young and just think I’m being rude,” she detailed.

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“Even when you’re getting a taxi – I’ve had a few say, ‘You’re only going up the road, why can’t you walk?’ Things like that upset me.”

As well as this, Reggie suffered a stroke in 2017 caused by a heart condition, and her youngest son Lucas has cystic fibrosis.

“It’s mentally and physically draining on Lucas so I have to stay strong for him,” she told Now To Love in 2020.

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“He has endless medication every day to help him digest his food and to break down the mucous that sits in his lungs. He also has physiotherapy every day and twice a day when he gets sick.”

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