Reality TV personality Billie Shepherd has revealed her diagnosis of Lyme disease, believed by doctors to have been contracted from a bite by an infected tick.

The 35-year-old shared shared that the symptoms of the illness appeared suddenly.

"One day I was fine, the next I woke up with really bad pains in my elbows and my arms," said the mother-of-three.

"I thought I must have slept funny. I tried to ignore it but as the days went on, the pain went all over my body to the point where I couldn't even get out of bed. It was horrendous.

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"I would have to crawl.

"Going to the toilet, I was in bits, I was hysterical, crying, because I was in so much pain."

The former star of The Only Way

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