Laura Hamilton has revealed the shocking way her blood disorder affects her body in a brave post on Instagram . The A Place in the Sun star, 42, has spoken candidly about living with ITP (Immune thrombocytopenia) and has now shared photos of how the rare condition affects her appearance. Explaining she was in the middle of filming the Channel 4 property show, the mum-of-two captioned a photograph of her legs, which were covered in bruises.
Insisting the marks were just a "flare-up", she wrote: "This is ITP! Just a little flare-up this week. But you won't see it under my dress for filming!" It's not the first time the presenter has opened up about her condition. Back In 2022, Laura bravely spoke about fighting the disease, which sadly killed the sister of one of the guests on A Place in the Sun.
Speaking about the condition, Laura told the Daily Star : "I have something called ITP, Immune thrombocytopenia, which is low platelet count in my blood, its quite an unknown disease. It sort of flares up and down depending on what's going on with my life, and stress often brings it out." She continued: "It was really mad a year ago I was filming A Place In The Sun with a lovely couple in France - Mark and Janine - and I just stood there and I had an insect bite on my leg and I started scratching it.
I was like, 'Oh, I shouldn't have done that because I'm gonna have bruises on my leg from ITP.'" Laura then learned that the house hunter's sister had died from the condition as she shared.
