Bambi Northwood-Blyth’s 22-Year Health Battle: ‘I Could Have Died’

Bambi Northwood-Blyth has opened up about her long battle with Type 1 diabetes.

The model, 34, has revealed how hypoglycaemia [low blood sugar] episodes have almost killed her.

‘There have been times I’ve been unconscious, alone, in a hotel room, by myself: no-one around, not due at work for another 10 hours,’ she told Stellar magazine.

‘By chance, I had someone following my blood sugar, who called an agent in another city, who called the hotel to call an ambulance.

‘There are moments like this where I was like, whoa, I could have died. It’s happened a couple of times.’

Type 1 Diabetes is an auto-immune condition in which the immune system is activated to destroy the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.

Bambi Northwood-Blyth (pictured) has opened up about her long battle with Type 1 diabetes

Bambi has been open about her battle with diabetes after she was dianogised at just 12 years old. 

The interview comes after Bambi’s ex-husband Dan Single returned to the spotlight after several years living quietly following a horror fall from a balcony that almost took his life.

The 47-year-old, who has rarely discussed his March 2017 accident which happened at an upscale Paris hotel, revealed that he ‘died for ten minutes’ after the fall, which left him in a coma.

‘It made me stop, slow down and think about what I want in my life,’ the designer told Confidential.

‘I had a chance to start fresh and I have used that second chance to be of service and help to inspire.’

His new book, which features photos and ephemera such as love letters, hate mail and newspaper clippings from Dan’s reign in the fashion world in the 2000s, is ‘a little snapshot in time when it was a magical moment to be alive’.

The book titled The Diary of a Naughtie Kid, is dedicated to his teenage son, Justice, 18, who he shares with P.E Nation designer Pip Edwards.

‘I made this book for my son, Justice, who is way too big now and for the next generation to show them you don’t need permission or training to create’ Dan said.

The model, 34, has revealed how hypoglycaemia [low blood sugar] episodes have been life threatening

It comes as Bambi’s ex-husband Dan Single (pictured) has returned to the spotlight with a bang after several years living quietly following a horror fall from a balcony that almost took his life 

‘It is not a life story, it is not even close … this captures a brief moment in time, the noughties. A moment in time when everything felt new, like there were no rules.’

Single announced his split with then-wife Bambi in March 2018, exactly twelve months after his Paris balcony fall.

Dan fell 35 metres from the fourth-storey balcony of Hotel Grand D’Amour in Paris in March, 2017.

The accident saw him plunge several storeys, shattering his legs and leaving him in a coma for eight days.

Bambi tied the knot with Dan in Byron Bay in January 2014, with Bambi becoming a stepmother to Dan’s son Justice at the age of 22.