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RTL presenter Anna Kraft: "Of course I also have my demon days"
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RTL presenter Anna Kraft has been managing her everyday life for six and a half years with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
"It's just a disease that you don't see," said the 35-year-old to the television station.
"When someone breaks a leg, most of the time you have a cast and then you can see it, but with MS it's something that is often not visible to outsiders."
A supposedly pinched nerve on the back led to this diagnosis after detailed examinations in the hospital, as RTL reports.
She was initially shocked, explains Kraft in a video.
"Don't look back, just look ahead," is how she describes her attitude.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a nervous system disorder that causes inflammation in the spinal cord and brain.
The course is very different and unpredictable.
"Of course I also have my demon days"
Currently, unlike other patients, people who are being treated with medication do not need a walking aid, the broadcaster RTL reports in the video.
Her long-time friend, football commentator Wolff-Christoph Fuss (Sky), is one of her greatest supports, especially when she is not doing so well.
Kraft, who is the mother of two girls, reports that she had unproblematic pregnancies that even suppressed MS.
“Of course I also have my demon days, as I say so beautifully.
I have the ants in my arms and in my feet, it tingles, then it feels as if I fell asleep.
Sometimes I have a bit of spasticity in my hand. "
Kraft, who grew up in Leverkusen, was a successful athlete before her career in the media industry.
With the sprint relay of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen she was German champion several times between 2000 and 2008.
After studying at the German Sport University in Cologne, she worked, among others, at WDR, Sat.1 and the pay-TV broadcaster Sky.
Only in July 2021 did she announce her move to RTL, where she will moderate the Uefa Europa League and the Conference League from September.
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