Pregnant Jess Impiazzi has revealed what she eats in a day as she gave a glimpse inside her fridge this week – amid her ‘life-changing’ battle with Lupus.
The reality star, 37, who was diagnosed with the chronic condition in 2023, is expecting her first child with her partner Sam Bird.
And while she is preparing to welcome her little one she is sticking to a very healthy diet.
Speaking to Closer Magazine, she revealed her fridge is full of fruit and veg, chicken and salmon and dark chocolate if she needs a sweet treat.
For breakfast she will usually have a protein shake or porridge with blueberries, banana and honey.
Then lunch would normally be avocado on toast with spring onions, beetroot and lemon juice.
For dinner her and Sam use Gousto boxes so it could be anything from a curry to a lentil bake.
Pregnant Jess Impiazzi has revealed what she eats in a day as she gave a glimpse inside her fridge this week – amid her ‘life-changing’ battle with Lupus
The reality star, 37, who was diagnosed with the chronic condition in 2023, is expecting her first child with her partner Sam Bird
During her pregnancy she has also had cravings for M&S’s cheese and onion sandwiches and if she has time she will treat herself to a homemade cottage pie of spaghetti Bolognese.
She also keeps plenty of Plenish oat milk in her kitchen as well as her favourite drink sparkling water.
Completing her fridge are fruits like strawberries, grapes and pears, veg like peppers and mushrooms and some mature cheddar cheese.
If she does go for a takeaway it would be a fresh margarita pizza from the local pizzeria.
Just last week Jess documented her ‘life-changing’ battle with Lupus as she shared candid photos of her skin rashes and hair loss.
She said she had ‘never felt so lost’ and was ‘always fearful of how the future would pan out’.
Lupus is a long-term autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, causing inflammation and damage to organs like the skin, joints, kidneys, and heart.
The Ex On The Beach star began her Instagram post by revealing that her diagnosis has had a profound impact on her mental wellbeing.
Jess confessed that her identity felt like it was shifting, and while she spent years working out and powering through her challenges, she felt she ‘couldn’t do it anymore’.
Alongside a bare-faced selfie, Jess revealed she had rashes appearing all over her face and body, her joints were swelling with arthritis, and the non-visible symptoms were ‘chipping away at her confidence’.
Just last week Jess documented her ‘life-changing’ battle with Lupus as she shared candid photos of her skin rashes and hair loss
Jess said in the post she had ‘never felt so lost’ and was ‘always fearful of how the future would pan out’
Jess is due to welcome her first child in May with her Formula E driver partner, Sam, whom she has been in a relationship with since the summer of 2024
Sharing a snap dancing on stage in a skimpy bodysuit, she continued: ‘I’d gone from being confident in front of the camera, making movies and TV series, to suddenly feeling too poorly and too self-conscious to take myself to the supermarket’.
Jess lost nearly half her hair, and the daily anxiety made her feel so lost she didn’t know who she was anymore.
Posting a snap of her in the air strapped into a harness, she explained she was taking steroids and tried different medication, which only helped occasionally.
‘But the truth was I was in pain, I was scared and didn’t know how to carry on like this’, she added.
Posing with her partner, Sam, 34, Jess explained that she had to find a new way of living which involved cooking fresh food, which aids gut health, while prioritising sleep and physical fitness.
She finished her post with: ‘I was always fearful of how the future would pan out with my body being unpredictable and worried if I’d ever get my own family that I wanted.
‘But it turns out taking good care of myself, being in a good environment and my medication (a+ little but of fertility science), I didn’t have to worry too much.
‘Pregnancy has its own challenges with lupus, which I’ll talk about next time. But I’m so proud of my body and how we can adapt to adversity.’
Jess is due to welcome her first child in May with her Formula E driver partner, Sam, whom she has been in a relationship with since the summer of 2024, following her split from footballer ex-boyfriend Jermaine Pennant.
The couple’s pregnancy comes after a long and emotional IVF journey.
The actress was diagnosed with Lupus in 2023 and later revealed she feared early menopause could leave her unable to have children.
Opening up about undergoing IVF while living with a chronic illness, Jess admitted the process was far from easy.
Recalling the experience, she told the Daily Mail: ‘It was challenging because I was really scared of the hook.
‘We did a trial one to get my period on the right setting, so I was using hormone tablets and injections and stuff.
‘And that was, that was quite frightening because I would get flare-ups during different jabs or different times of what the medication was on, because before that I’d been put on HRT, so my body was all over the shop, we didn’t really know what was going on.’
‘I was really scared of all this stuff going in my body because I was already on a medication called azathioprine, which I’m still on and hydroxychloroquine and then the steroids, and it does frighten you because my body’s just been through so much by this point.
‘I’m just really pleased it worked and we’re now, and I’m now at this stage, I still take my medication, but I don’t feel like I’m being pumped with everything now.’
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