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Dani Harmer has revealed she was taken to hospital over the weekend due to a mystery illness.
The Tracy Beaker star, 36, told how she has been forced to cancel an upcoming job because she’s still not well enough to work.
In a video uploaded to TikTok, she said: ‘I am not very well. I was admitted to the hospital over the weekend. But I’m out.
‘I feel like poo, actually. They’re not entirely sure what’s wrong with me so I’m still having tests.
‘I’m absolutely gutted that I’ve had to cancel work and a job that I was really excited to do.
‘Those that know me know how much I love my job. So, absolutely devastated.
Dani Harmer has revealed she was taken to hospital over the weekend due to a mystery illness
The Tracy Beaker star, 36, told how she has been forced to cancel an upcoming job because she’s still not well enough to work
‘Thank you to those that have messaged me asking if I’m okay. I will hopefully be back and on my feet soon. Sending you lots of love.’
Dani shared an update in a later video, saying she was still ‘not 100 per cent’ and was unclear about what her illness was.
The actress famously played Tracey Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson’s curly-haired schoolgirl in the TV show from 2002 to 2005.
Dani also reprised the role in the spinoffs Tracy Beaker Returns in 2010, The Dumping Ground in 2013, and My Mum Tracy Beaker and The Beaker Girls in 2021.
Earlier this year, Dani revealed she has been diagnosed with perimenopause.
She said: ‘I have been diagnosed with perimenopause. And what I need your help with is my hair.
‘I am losing it, like it is thinning so badly like you can see the bald patches coming in but just like the texture. It’s thinning – it’s bad right.’
Dani admitted she is quite low by her hair thinning and asked fans whether she should get hair extensions but said she is worried that it would make her locks worse.
In a video uploaded to TikTok , she said: ‘I am not very well. I was admitted to the hospital over the weekend. But I’m out’
Earlier this year, Dani revealed she has been diagnosed with perimenopause
She continued: ‘It could be a terrible idea, it might make my hair even worse to be honest but it’s really getting me down now!’
As for how she was diagnosed with perimenopause, Dani admitted it was her husband Simon who first noticed that her ‘whole personality had pretty much changed’.
The actress said her symptoms got ‘too much to ignore’ as her depression and anxiety increased and she also started experiencing ‘brain fog’, night sweats and sleep interruptions.
Dani revealed that she went to the GP and saw a female doctor and got a ‘diagnosis pretty swiftly’.
They also did blood tests to rule anything else out.
Sighing, she said: ‘I felt like I was being possessed by someone else, it was horrible – I was just getting deeper and deeper into a dark depression.
‘So I’m really glad that I went and I got help. My doctor was more than happy to put me on HRT.’
Dani said she’s been on HRT for around 18 months, and ‘feels like myself again’ and has lost the weight she gained during lockdown.
However the only lasting side effect she is facing is hair loss and the ‘odd hot flush and stuff’.
