Unless you have allergies, you don't tend to hear about them much, but they can be seriously life-threatening if people aren't properly educated on them. Food allergies alone increased 50% among US children from 1997 to 2011, and complications can range from a runny nose to fatal anaphylaxis.
Though allergies were once picked on or treated as a joke, certain famous face are speaking out on their personal experiences with allergies—from nuts to hair products—and are helping to normalize the topic and educate the public.
Halsey has always been open about her health issues, sharing her struggles with endometriosis, fertility, and mental illness. Most recently, the singer learned that they're allergic to "literally everything." Halsey has been in poor health since they gave birth to their first child in July 2021 and has been hospitalized multiple times, often for anaphylactic shock. This led to the discovery that she has a number of serious allergies to everyday foods such as potatoes, corn, spinach, ginger, garlic, milk, wheat, crab, shrimp, carrots, peppers, almonds, peanuts, cashews, blueberries, grapes, onions, grapefruit, cauliflower, squash, lemons, coconuts, bananas, and soy, to name just a few. Halsey posted a TikTok of herself lying in bed hooked up to a heart monitor saying, "just found out I'm allergic to coffee so there goes my entire personality."
Halsey has also been diagnosed with a range of other illnesses including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Sjögren's syndrome, and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
From Ariana Grande to Steve Martin, see which stars have opened up about their intense allergies.