Jennie Garth has secretly living with a degenerative disease for years
Insider on Thursday, May 5."I was like, I'm too young for arthritis," she recalled thinking when her orthopedic doctor identified the issue in 2019, which came after a series of tests, including X-rays and and MRI.Rather than letting the diagnosis get her down, the actress, now 50, looked at the cup as half full."It was just a new, interesting development in my maturing," she said. "You don't think of yourself as slowing down or anything stopping you from all the things you do every day."Early-onset osteoarthritis, a common form of degenerative disease, happens when cartilage wears down and fails to adequately protect the bone.