Villela contracted COVID-19 back in August. She missed five weeks shooting for “Selling Sunset” and has never fully recovered. Long-haul COVID-19 is now recognized as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
You won't find reality star Vanessa Villela enjoying Christmas dinner this year.
The TV personality from the hit Netflix show “Selling Sunset” suffers from long-haul COVID, and finding something she can eat is just one of her challenges.
“A lot of foods that I smell or taste, they smell or taste like sewage or like rotten meat. Or like garbage,” Villela said.
“So I get nauseous and then I cannot eat,” she continued.
Villela contracted COVID-19 back in August. She missed five weeks shooting for “Selling Sunset” and she has never fully recovered.
Researchers say up to 30% of all COVID-19 patients like Villela live with a roller coaster of symptoms for months, including extreme fatigue, headache, insomnia, brain fog, breathing problems and hair loss.
“I started showering one day, and then when I was washing my hair, I started to pull out a lot of hair and I’m like what?” Villela said.
“It gets to a point when you are like when, I don't know when is it going to end?” she continued.
Andrea Tomasek would also like an answer to that question.
“Christmas Eve this year is going to be my 21-month anniversary of having symptoms of COVID,” Tomasek said.
Incredibly, the 38-year-old Minnesota mom caught the virus in March 2020.
“I feel like a completely different person on the inside, and it's not an improvement,” Tomasek said.
She has had a low-grade fever every day since she was stricken.
Long-haul COVID-19 is now recognized as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
