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Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden shares painful reality of Chron's

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Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has opened up about suffering from Crohn’s disease in a heartbreaking Instagram post.The professional dancer, 31, bravely spoke out about living with the lifelong illness on World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day on Instagram, alongside a snap of herself on a hospital bed when she was having a flare-up with red, inflamed eyes, a swollen face and cracked lips.Amy detailed how the condition, which causes inflammation of the digestive tract, has severely impacted her life and told how she had been denied work opportunities as employers considered her to be a "risk" due to her condition.She wrote: "World IBD day.

I wanted to show the reality of flares! (this isn’t me today, I’ve had a lovely day filming). Last few years I’ve really wanted to help raise awareness for IBD.

Help other sufferers but also show that it doesn’t define you.She also claimed people's attitudes have "robbed her of opportunities and dreams".Amy said: "Today I want to share times I found tough.

One of which is being judged for your condition! I would do anything in the world not to live with it, I often say what did I do to deserve this?"Then I’d be robbed of opportunities and dreams because I’d be seen as a ‘risk’ which would frustrate and upset me, which as many know isn’t good for any sufferers.

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