BBC Strictly's Claudia Winkleman reveals 'secret struggle' with 'a couple of operations'
ok.co.ukPopular Strictly Come Dancing and Traitors host Claudia Winkleman has opened up about a health struggle that has left her needing surgery.The 51 year old star revealed in a candid chat with podcaster Elizabeth Day that she was born with chronically poor eyesight - and it affects her daily life.
She said: "I was born with -15 sight so I've never really been able to see my face. It's all guesswork." But Claudia, who shares children Jake, 20, Matilda, 17, and Arthur, 12, with husband Kris Thykier, also reckons that she likes life being a bit blurry. "I've always had terrible eyesight.
Which is going back to the blurriness of the paintings I like and the blurriness of how I really like life to be. Which is no overhead lights - the 17th century is where I would have absolutely smashed it," she joked.
Before she took steps to correct her vision, Claudia revealed: "I was just banging into walls, but now I wear lenses or glasses or whatever." Claudia also confessed that she had had operations on her eyes but they didn't work.
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