Former Little Mix star Perrie Edwards has opened up about how she was born without a sense of smell but didn't know until her kitchen went on fire and she couldn't smell the smoke
Perrie Edwards has opened up how she was born without a sense of smell - a condition called congenital anosmia - and only learned about her condition when couldn't smell smoke from a kitchen fire.
Opening up on the kitchen fire at home when she was younger, the 30 year old said: "I couldn't smell it. Yeah, our kitchen had set on fire. No, I saw the black smoke come under the door. And then I started coughing and then I was like, , 'cause it takes your breath away."The mum-of-one revealed that she underwent surgery in an attempt to gain a sense of smell, but it was only a temporary fix.
Doctors recommended that Perrie have surgery for a second time, but she decided not to. She recalled: "I was like, I'm not going through that again. I don't care. Like, if I had it and lost it, fair enough. But I've never had it, so why care?"
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