Caitlyn Jenner She is now known as a member of one of the world’s most famous families, the Kardashians – Jenner: socialites, influencers, high-class stars who have garnered media attention and revealed all the details of her life on television. But Caitlyn’s past has very different roots. HE formerly Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlete, speaker, successful businessman… the embodiment of everything expected of the American hero of the mid-70s.
After defeating major Soviet sports power and becoming a successful brand herself, she married and separated twice before marrying Kristen Houghton, then recently divorced attorney Robert Kardashian, with whom she has three daughters and a son (Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob). . ). The new couple expanded the family even further with two other girls (Kendall and Kylie) and together they rose to fame through their own ‘reality show’, ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’.
No longer the former Olympian who thrilled a nation, he was now Kim’s stepfather and rapper Kanye West’s father-in-law, but his third relationship with Houghton also ended in 2015. passing plastic surgery operations to improve your features. And in a live interview broadcast on ABC a month later, he admitted:For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.These statements, along with her image on the cover of Vanity Fair and the viral issue she started with the headline “Call me Caitlyn”, traveled the world helping to normalize transsexuality. Even though her identity changed, her figure remained the same, helping to normalize transsexuality. He was still “dad” in the famous family.
The actor who played Marty McFly in the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy, Parkinson’s since 1991. It was months after the premiere of the third part of the saga when a neurologist whom the actor visited for seemingly normal pain diagnosed him with Parkinson’s. He was only 30 years old and at the peak of his career.. He managed to combine his illness with his work in the acting world for almost three decades, until he announced his final retirement in 2020.
In 2000, he founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation to research Parkinson’s and help people like him who suffer from it. Since that time collected 1,000 million euros the cause and his scientific team discovered a biomarker that would make it possible to detect the disease before it occurs; This is a discovery that will help develop new and better treatments.
robert redfordOne of Hollywood’s most famous and longest-serving actors, he took his first steps into the acting world by enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1957. a woman named Lola van Wagenen, whom he would marry a year later. In 1959 the couple welcomed their first child, Scott. Redford was just starting to rise in his career and life was smiling at him but he was barely able to baby died of sudden death two months after birtha syndrome that was not well known at the time.
It occurs in children under the age of one who are apparently healthy and often die. during sleep and for no clear reason. But the death of his son changed the actor forever: “As a father you tend to blame yourself, that leaves a scar that will never heal,” he explained several times. Far from failing, he fought to move forward with his wife and decided to have more children: Shawna, Amy and James sadly died in 2020 of liver cancer while waiting for a transplant.
Juan Carlos Unzue He is a former football player known for his role as goalkeeper for teams such as Osasuna, FC Barcelona and Sevilla, with whom he played more than 200 matches. Later, despite being in charge of Numancia and Girona in the minor leagues, he was also the coach of Celta de Vigo and the assistant coach of FC Barcelona. To put He ended his sports career when he was diagnosed in 2020. One (Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis).
From that moment she began working as an activist and is now one of the most visible faces in the fight to improve the living conditions of patients, especially demanding the processing of Commonwealth law and lack of financial aid comes the time when patients begin to need special assistance 24 hours a day. “It’s a class-based disease and I’m privileged because money won’t condition me for the type of life I have, but 95% of my sick friends do. real failure for society“, declared in an interview for the podcast The Wild Project.
famous actress Carmen ElijahHe had seamlessly memorized roles as complex as Marta in ‘Terra Baixa’ throughout his life and allowed Pedro Almodóvar to be loved by the camera in a movie called ‘La flor de mi secreto’ or ‘Camino’. She won the Goya for best actress. Therefore, it took him a long time to discover that the strange memory lapses he suffered were the first signs of a disease. alzheimer’s Who was diagnosed in 2019.
He has since chosen describe their experiences openly but also without tears, because he assures himself that he does not want sadness to take over the last stage of his life, and that presenting himself as the voice and face of illness helps him. He assures himself that he has no problem facing the end and defends his right to an honorable death. “I had a life that I could not complain about and I was able to practice my profession. I am not afraid of death, but There’s no point in me still being here when my brain is gone.. I want an honorable death, I want to get out of here before I am completely lost due to Alzheimer’s,” he explains in his book, “when I am no longer me”.