00:00And there are a lot of commonalities.
00:07It's just quickly because it's 20 minutes.
00:11You know, you're battling lupus.
00:13Yes, po.
00:14What does it make you as a young woman?
00:17When I was diagnosed with lupus, I was 16 years old.
00:20And I didn't know what happened to my body.
00:23I was facing joint pains, hair loss, uneven skin tone.
00:28I was so fatigued because of stress.
00:31And I didn't know what it was.
00:33I went to the doctor and said, oh, you have lupus.
00:35And at the time, I didn't understand.
00:39Because at the time, they also said, it's not curable.
00:42It's not a curable disease.
00:44It's not curable.
00:45Yes.
00:46But what you can do is just make sure that you take care of your health.
00:49Exercise.
00:50Make sure to not eat inflammatory foods.
00:52And try to stay out of the sun and don't be stressed.
00:55Okay.
00:56There's a lot to go through.
00:58Because as I get older, of course, I can't escape stress.
01:01I can't escape going under the sun.
01:03And I'm the type of person who really hurts me every day.
01:05Right?
01:06I love the beach.
01:07I love going outside.
01:08So it's a matter of really making sure that I take the steps that will keep me healthy.
01:13And I believe that it's an illness that doesn't define who I am.
01:17Right.
01:18Because when I tell people lupus, oh, are you okay?
01:21Like, what do you do now?
01:22Like, are you taking medicines?
01:24That's why I didn't want to talk about it before.
01:27Because I didn't want people to attach that sickness to me or that disease to me.
01:32Because I'm not just someone who has lupus.
01:34I'm someone who's athletic.
01:35I'm someone who's a beauty queen.
01:37I'm a singer.
01:38I dance a lot.
01:39I exercise a lot.
01:40I do a lot of the things that people who think lupus can't do.
01:43But that also realizing that by talking about it, ang dami mong natutulungan.
01:46Yes.
01:47Diba?
01:48Kailangan malusog ka.
01:49From lupus, you know, you were bullied.
01:51Growing up.
01:52As in, talagang intense, extreme bullying.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Like, physical, emotional, psychological bullying.
01:59I remember back in the days that pa-uwi akong bahay na tinatapunan ako ng bato
02:03na sometimes I would go home bleeding pa.
02:05And then I would see my grandma.
02:06And of course, you tell me the same thing that never give them back the same pain.
02:09So, all throughout my life, I went through so much pain that at least at a very young age,
02:13I realized that if I'm going through pain, might as well get something from it.
02:17So, that's when I transformed pain talaga into power tito.
02:20There's no option.
02:21I mean, I keep saying, if you hit the rock bottom, there's only one way to go
02:24and it's going up.
02:25So, basically, I used that pain and turned into the woman that I am right now.
02:29That's the story.
02:51You're playing in a baby.
02:52I'm not sure if you hit the rock bottom.
02:53I'm out.
02:54I'm out.
02:55You're playing a baby.
02:56I'm out.
02:57I'm out.
02:58I'm out.
02:59I'm out.
03:00I'm out.
03:01I'm out.
03:02You're playing a baby.
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