Celebrities With Type 2 Diabetes

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Billie Jean King

"Anyone can develop diabetes, even an athlete," says tennis champion Billie Jean King, who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes four years ago at age 63.

King, who founded the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974, has a family history of diabetes and also had an eating disorder in the past. "I was a binge eater. I don’t binge eat anymore, but for about 10 years, I was being very cruel to my poor little pancreas."

To keep her condition under control, she exercises frequently, takes medication, and tests her blood sugar once or twice a day.

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