{"id":250,"date":"2020-06-11T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2024-10-15T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:20:05","slug":"halle-berry-opens-up-about-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/halle-berry-opens-up-about-type-2-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry Opens Up About Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic illness can come with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mighty-well.com\/2020\/04\/the-silence-of-shame\/\">shame and stigmas<\/a> that keep many of our stories in the dark. It takes courage to come out to the world with a diagnosis. That\u2019s why we love it when celebrities choose to use their platform to open up chronic illness conversations!<\/p>\n<p>Type 2 diabetes is no stranger to stigma, due to<a href=\"https:\/\/drjamielong.com\/what-is-fat-shaming\/\"> fat shaming<\/a> and misinformation. Yet Halle Berry has proudly and gracefully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/halle-berry-health-latest-star-discusses-her-type-2-diabetes\/\">shared her story<\/a> with this common disease. She has shown that having diabetes is not something to be ashamed of \u2014 it hasn\u2019t stopped her from having a successful career in modeling and acting! As many of our Friends have experienced, having a chronic condition helped her become the incredible woman she is:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cDiabetes turned out to be a gift\u2026 It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Halle Berry (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/halle-berry-health-latest-star-discusses-her-type-2-diabetes\/\">Business Telegraph<\/a>)<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you have a chronic illness hero? Someone who has been loud and proud about their experience? We\u2019d love to hear it in our Friends in the Fight facebook group!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mighty-well.com\/2020\/06\/halle-berry-opens-up-about-type-2-diabetes\/\">Halle Berry Opens Up About Type 2 Diabetes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mighty-well.com\">Mighty Well Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic illness can come with shame and stigmas that keep many of our stories in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidestonefinancialgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}