HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As many as nine in 10 adults with chronic kidney disease don't even know they have it.

That's according to the CDC , who adds that more than 30 million people in the U.S. are estimated to have chronic kidney disease.

We do have so many people who are suffering from kidney disease and need transplants and just need the support. Alexis Conell, Kidney Transplant Recipient

Alexis Conell says she was once one of the people who didn't know something was wrong, mainly because she had no symptoms.

"In 2009, I was what some would call living my best life. I had a successful modeling career. I was working full time, traveling," Conell said. "I thought I was doing all the right things. I was eating well. I was working out, you know, four to five times a week."

But

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