What disease does the girl on 90 Day Fiancé have?
Prior to the 90 Days, Stephanie shared the details of the ailment that almost deterred her from boarding an international flight.
Two years before she started filming for Season 4, she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, which is a disorder in which the body doesn’t produce enough blood cells and they are instead produced in the bone marrow from stem cells.
Due to this, Stephanie has always had blood transfusions and she is more susceptible to illnesses.
She unraveled on the show that something as simple as the common cold could make her deathly ill.
It made sense, then, for Stephanie to take precautions before traveling to Australia. She told Fox News that living with aplastic anemia has limited her in various aspects of her life.
“It definitely puts limitations on my life, on my ability to travel. I always need permission and clearance from my doctors to go anywhere,” she said. “So, you know, meeting somebody in Australia wasn’t the easiest thing for me. I probably would have been much better off falling in love with somebody here, somebody local.”
Stephanie Matto and Erika Owens
Despite Stephanie’s illness, she was determined to travel across the world to Australia to meet Erika Owens and see if they could make it work.
Stephanie disclosed she hadn’t been with anyone for a while, but she was eager to kiss Erika and get close to her physically.
While her health didn’t get in the way of that, their clashing personalities did result in their eventual split.