Berry is in a perfect position to be a global advocate and ambassador for people with diabetes. Beautiful, well-known and a person with diabetes herself, there is no limit to the effect she can make with her words. However, that all depends on the words that actually come out. In the past, she has shown diabetes in an accurate light. In an article with the Daily Mail, she explains her usual day living with diabetes.
"I have to test my blood sugar levels at least a couple of times a day," she explains."I do a tiny pinprick, usually on my fingertips, and test it with a special kit which tell me how high or low my blood sugar levels are.
"Then using this as a guide I inject myself with the correct dose of insulin to level up my blood sugar. "People always kind of cringe when I say that," she laughs.
However, recently in an interview with Inside the Actor's Studio, Ms. Berry was shown to have absolutely no idea about what her condition is, let alone any complete sense about even which type of diabetes she suffers from. In actual fact, Ms Berry has always been a Type-2 diabetic, and never suffered from Type-1 as she is so confused about in her words:
"I've managed to ween myself off insulin, so now I like to put myself in the Type 2 category."
This complete lack of self-awareness of a condition she suffers from is phenomenal. The shame is that despite global efforts and awareness campaigns, popular culture will mean that people will listen to her and not hear anything else about the disease.
As a respondent to the article mentioned in a comment;
As a respondent to the article mentioned in a comment;
"Yes, please share with our little children how it was managed? My 11 year old would LOVE to know. I wanted to just puke when I read this. Thanks alot, now people are going to be asking my CHILD why she still has Type 1 diabetes."One other serious complication (pardon the pun) of this article is the fact that Type-2 diabetes i seen as a "drop" from Type-1 diabetes and that you can make the jump whenever you want. Type-2 diabetes at times can be more serious as it goes commonly undiagnosed, creating diabetic complications without any symptoms for a number of years.
Ms Berry, please get your facts straightened out before speaking publicly about diabetes. It is obvious that you have NO idea what is happening with your own diabetes.
