{"id":7976,"date":"2011-06-27T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:38:42","slug":"missy-elliott-clarifies-graves-disease-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7976","title":{"rendered":"Missy Elliott Clarifies Graves&#8217; Disease Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, news reports stated that rapper <strong>Missy Elliott<\/strong> has been battling a thyroid condition called Graves&#8217; disease.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday,<strong> Elliot <\/strong>released a statement on the disease, insisting that her ailments have not hurt her career as some news reports have stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missy&#8217;s<\/strong> statement is posted below:<br \/>\n\u201cThere have been some inaccuracies reported in regards to my diagnosis with Graves&#8217; Disease, so I wanted to clear things up.<br \/>\nI was diagnosed with Graves&#8217; Disease about three years ago but it really hasn&#8217;t slowed me down at all. I rocked my performance on VH1 Hip Hop Honors&#8217; tribute to <strong>Timbaland<\/strong> last year. I&#8217;ve written and produced a bunch of Grammy-nominated, #1 hits for artists like <strong>Keyshia Cole<\/strong>, <strong>Monica <\/strong>and <strong>Jasmine Sullivan<\/strong>. I toured the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. And on top of all that, I&#8217;m working on my new album.<\/p>\n<p>I feel great. Under my doctor&#8217;s supervision, I&#8217;ve been off medication for about a year and I&#8217;m completely managing the condition through diet and exercise.\u201d \u2014 <strong>Missy Elliott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, there is no cure for Graves&#8217; disease, which can affect a person&#8217;s energy level and appearance, but symptoms can be managed with treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, news reports stated that rapper Missy Elliott has been battling a thyroid condition called Graves&#8217; disease. On Friday, Elliot released a statement on the disease, insisting that her ailments have not hurt her career as some news reports have stated. Missy&#8217;s statement is posted below: \u201cThere have been some inaccuracies reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}