‘OutDaughtered’ Stars Danielle and Adam Busby Open Up About Her ‘Alarming’ Autoimmune Disease Battle

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OutDaughtered stars Danielle and Adam Busby opened up about the unique parenting challenges posed by Danielle’s autoimmune disease battle.“I used to not be able to get upstairs without feeling like I was gonna pass out,” Danielle, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, July 10, while promoting the season 9 premiere of OutDaughtered. “That’s just not a norm for me.

I was always athletic and kind of fit and we’ve always taken care of ourselves. So for my body to go so down, it just was alarming.”Danielle began to notice something was wrong after giving birth to her and Adam’s quintuplets — Ava, Olivia, Hazel, Riley and Parker — in 2015.

The couple also share daughter Blayke, now 12.Danielle previously faced a series of infertility struggles, initially trying to conceive via IVF before Blayke’s 2011 arrival.

She later opted for Femara — a prescription which increases fertility for patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) — which led to her first pregnancy.When looking to expand their family again, Danielle went back on Femara and became pregnant with the quintuplets.“After I had [them], my body never kind of recovered because it was nonstop movement.