5.Nick Jonas
This singer went public with his type 1 diabetes in 2007. He has said that his symptoms included weight loss and thirst. When diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, his blood sugar was over 700 — and normal blood sugar levels are from 70 to 120. Jonas was hospitalized, but he learned to manage his condition. Once called juvenile diabetes, type 1 is the most common kind among people younger than 20, but it can strike at any age.
6.Paula Deen
The celebrity chef announced in January 2012 that she has type 2 diabetes. Well known for her buttery, sugary recipes, Deen said she learned she had the disease a few years earlier, but she didn’t speak about it publicly because she wasn’t ready. Now, she says, she wants “to let the world know that [diabetes] is not a death sentence.”
