Former What Not To Wear host Susannah Constantine has said she thinks about her mortality "most mornings" as she reflected on overcoming a "life-threatening" neurological disorder.
The London-born 61-year-old said that one of the benefits of ageing is being able to take health issues "on board" and be "less fearful" about them.
Discussing her health on the ITV1 panel show Loose Women, she said: "I feel fine. I mean, I did have this sort of weird neurological disorder and it was life-threatening, but, well at my age anyway, you just take these things on board.
"I think that is one of the huge benefits of getting older," she continued.
"You’re less fearful in some ways and although I do think about my mortality most mornings when I wake up, I’m cool about it."
Saying that she is in a "really happy place", she also said, "Life is so simple and essentially, I’m primarily a wife and a mother, a housewife who happens to work and that’s exactly how I like it."
Last year, Constantine hinted at her health issues when she shared a video of herself in a hospital bed to Instagram and praised the "gifted doctors and angel nurses" who had looked after her.
Ok! magazine reported that she had been taken to hospital for emergency surgery after suffering from pins and needles, tinnitus and a swollen eye.
She told the publication: "They said, ‘It’s Hobson’s Choice, if you don’t have the operation, you’ve got a one in three chance of having a brain haemorrhage, being paralysed or having a stroke.
"If you do have surgery, you’ve got a one in ten chance of these same things happening during the operation’."
She told The Sun: "I had this thing called an arterial fistula and I still don’t understand what it was, I was very lucky not to have a stroke or be paralysed.
"So I have a total clean bill of health now, thanks to the NHS and surgeons, they set me on the path to health."
Constantine also discussed her hearing loss on the ITV1 programme, saying she is trying to help remove the "stigma" around hearing loss.
Source: Press Association
