Holly Rey Opens Up About Living with Diabetes.

SA singer Holly “Rey” Wasserfall has been living with diabetes for more than half of her life. At age 9, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

In 2020, the star opened up about how diabetes has affected her life. Since then, she has shared her journey on social media, she even has an Instagram highlight dedicated to diabetes.

Diabetes is a chronic and life-changing disease, hence, patients diagnosed with it need proper care and attention.

Recently, the award-winning singer opened up about her health. She said she became more intentional after she had a scare. Also, she gave kudos to her doctors as they played an important role.

“The thing is it is not like you take a pill and then you are good. Everything you eat and do is affected. I am on an amazing program now. I have a doctor on call for when I’m not feeling well. He does travel with me. A big change in my schedule and my team is having a doctor be a part of my team. He’s not with me all the time but whenever I’m feeling under the weather he does travel with me to make sure I can be the best version of myself, not just for me but for all my fans and everyone I’m interacting with,” she said

Holly Rey on Managing Diabetes as a Celebrity

Holly went on to speak about how tasking and draining a celebrity’s life can be. She has to travel constantly and also make energy-consuming moves on stage.

“Our heart rate is up and down all the time. It is like being a professional athlete. He told me if I don’t take my illness and my lifestyle seriously I’m going to get sick quickly. For me that was a shock. He said I needed to make some sort of a lifestyle change otherwise I’m either giving up music and going to a more wholesome regulated lifestyle or its changing the way I approach music and the way I visualise doing music. I obviously couldn’t give up music so the compromise was having a doctor on call and taking my life seriously. It is something  I think more musicians need to do,” she said