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26 June 2010
Gwyneth Paltrow: I'm Suffering from Brittle Bone Disease
With her extreme diets and harsh exercise regimes, Gwyneth Paltrow is nothing if not health conscious.
So it must have come as a shock to be told she is suffering from an ailment more commonly the preserve of elderly women.
The 37-year-old actress says she is in the early stages of osteopenia, precursor to the brittle-bone disease osteoporosis.
The problem was diagnosed in a bone scan after she suffered a leg fracture. In her internet newsletter Goop, she said: ‘My doctors tested my vitamin D levels, which turned out to be the lowest thing they had ever seen (not a good thing).’
20 October 2022
Queen Consort Reveals Both Her Mother and Grandmother Died of Osteoporosis
Camilla said her relatives had the condition during a time when it was “rarely diagnosed” and “seldom discussed”
The disease, which causes bones to break more easily, affects 50% of women over 50 in the UK.
Camilla says mother suffered so badly from osteoporosis
her rib broke when friend hugged her.
Osteoporosis was the Furthest Thing from my Mind
“The good news about osteoporosis is that it is very treatable,” Sally claims. “But it is silent and you don’t know it is there unless you are really getting bone density tests and you have either someone looking out for you, like a really good doctor, or you know enough to look out for yourself”.
– Sally Field
If you are 50+ years old or otherwise may be at risk of osteoporosis, ask your doctor about BDI’s osteoporosis screening service.