MELANIE Skyes has shared a fresh health update after revealing she’s “two-thirds bald” from an autoimmune condition.
The popular TV star, 55, has been open and honest about her health battle, after admitting she’s in “so much pain” after spending much of the year unwell.
Mel, who suffers from an autoimmune condition, raised concerns around her health after revealing the shocking symptoms of her illness which has resulted in hair loss.
In her latest Instagram post, the mum-of-two gave a positive outlook on how she is feeling.
Speaking to fans in a video, she said: “How are you doing? I’m good. I can’t stop grinning. I did a meditation last night and it was a guided one on Insight Timer and it encouraged you to smile.
“Even if you’re not feeling it emotionally, just smile with your eyes closed. And it changes your mood, man.
“So just remember you can always smile. And I don’t mean like through gritted teeth.”
Later in the video she said: “So yeah, I just wanted to share my good feelings today.
“Like I’m vibrating high and, and that, you know, even the most difficult times do pass. They just do. And I just want to use this term post-traumatic growth. It’s real.
“You can be suffering with PTSD, but at the same time be experiencing post-traumatic growth. I’m in both, both camps because you can be two things at once.
“It’s not one or the other, it’s both. And as long as I attend to myself and what makes me happy and also feel grief about whatever has gone on and process it and move on from it, we can transcend all pain.
“We can transcend all trauma. We can be changed. And I am living fucking proof of that. So I love you.
“I just wanted to share that today and I wish you a fabulous Friday. Speak to you soon. Ta-ra.”
HAIR LOSS
Last week, the mum-of-two bravely revealed the extent of her hair loss, revealing that she was now “two thirds bald”.
Again speaking in an Instagram video, she explained: “I’ve got an autoimmune condition, I am losing my hair, I keep having crazy inflammation all over and I am working on healing.
“In the last three months, I’ve done a meditation teacher training course.
“I was too ill to finish it like. The last two days of it I couldn’t do.
“It’s meditation teacher training, I don’t necessarily want to teach, but I can do…
“Mostly I’ve been living a very, very very spiritual existence.”
Mel, who suffers from alopecia and a heart condition, has become increasingly spiritual since her health battle began last April.
FINDING FAITH
Mel, who has stepped back from her showbiz career, also shared an insight into her new-found faith – and how it has impacted her outlook on life.
In the six-minute clip, Mel revealed: “Yeah, life is so, so good, and I know it because I’m right here right now and there’s nothing to fear. There is nothing to fear.
“The more I tune into faith, and believing that all is well because it is, because I’m experiencing it, so I know that it is, that it’ll only get better.”
The former model went on to share that despite obvious concerns around her welfare from close pals, she would rather not have to talk about being ill all the time.
She admitted: “We don’t need to bring that to the conversation. It’s not like I’m hiding it, I’d just rather have conversation about something else because I’ve got that [health issues] down and I’m healing myself”.
