Tommy Hilfiger's Daughter, Ally, Battles With Lyme Disease

By Jenn Loro - 12 May '16 10:18AM

Famous designer Tommy Hilfiger's daughter Ally has recently joined a number of celebrities who decided to go public with their painful Lyme disease experience.

The thirty-year-old Ally revealed that she has been battling with Lyme symptoms for most of her life since childhood owing to her doctors' repeated failure to diagnose her correctly. At the peak of her health battle, Ally often complained of experiencing extreme fatigue, headaches, and constant muscle pains throughout her body.

"It had taken over every single cell in my body and in my brain. I couldn't put lotion on my legs because it felt as if I was being beaten with a baseball bat. I was like an 80-year-old woman," Ally said as quoted by Economic Times.

Ally admitted that she unknowingly struggled with the illness since she was seven until she was diagnosed with Lyme disease after turning 19. In her recent interview, she reportedly spent some time in a psychiatric facility before her diagnosis.

"I had full-on Lyme brain and didn't even know it. I started to say things that I knew were incorrect but couldn't stop, like, 'My dad invented cargo pants.' What? What the hell was I thinking? That ended up being one of the main things people like to make fun of me for saying," a candid Ally said as quoted by Jezebel.

The designer wrote about her ordeal how Lyme robbed her of a normal childhood experience in a book titled 'Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me.'

Lyme disease is bacterial infection that affects about 329,000 Americans. Signs and symptoms include pain in the joints, stiffness of the neck, muscle pains, swelling, severe fatigue, rashes, extreme headache, and, in some cases, nervous breakdown, Hollywood Life reported.

Apart from the abovementioned symptoms, Lyme disease infection may also lead to cardiovascular diseases like myocarditis, a condition where the heart repeatedly suffers from inflammatory pains which could potentially lead to heart failure.