{"id":409044,"date":"2025-11-27T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:57:15","slug":"celine-dion-looks-happy-and-healthy-as-she-shares-rare-update-amid-sps-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409044\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Dion looks happy and healthy as she shares rare update amid SPS battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celine Dion looked happy and healthy in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRjHYjojo_R\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest Instagram post<\/a> as she wished her followers a happy Thanksgiving amid her battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/12\/08\/celine-dion-diagnosed-with-stiff-person-syndrome-cancels-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stiff person syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear friends. Today is a beautiful reminder to slow down, take a deep breath and give thanks,\u201d she opened the clip on Thursday, looking directly at the camera. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something so powerful about gathering with the people you love, whether around the full table, over the phone or even just in your heart.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Celine Dion looked happy and healthy in her latest Instagram post wishing her followers a Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The video was shared amid the singer\u2019s battle with stiff person syndrome. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so thankful to my family and our moments together that mean the world to me,\u201d the \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d hitmaker, 57, continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay your thanksgiving be filled with joy, with peace and with gratitude for everything. Even the little things. Happy thanksgiving, from me and my family\u2026 to you and yours.\u201d she closed. <\/p>\n<p>The singer captioned the post with a message that read: \u201cWishing everyone a beautiful and peaceful Thanksgiving! May your day be filled with love, gratitude, and precious moments with the people who mean the most to you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a beautiful reminder to slow down, take a deep breath and give thanks,\u201d Dion said in the clip.  Getty Images for Global Citizen<\/p>\n<p>Dion announced she was diagnosed with the neurological disease in December 2022.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dion revealed she had been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome in December 2022 as she announced the postponement or cancellation of several concerts she was originally scheduled to perform. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it\u2019s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I\u2019ve been going through,\u201d she said in a teary video\u00a0posted to social media at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently I have been diagnosed with a very rare neurological syndrome, which affects something like one in a million people,\u201d she continued, explaining that it is this condition that has been causing all of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/10\/19\/celine-dion-delays-las-vegas-residency-over-muscle-spasms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cspasms\u201d she\u2019s been having<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SPS causes rigidity and spasms in the trunk and limbs, according to the Cleveland Clinic.  celinedion\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>She additionally canceled the remainder of her tour dates in light of the diagnosis.  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>SPS causes rigidity and spasms in the trunk and limbs,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/articles\/6076-stiff-person-syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>. Over time, leg muscles become stiff followed by other muscles including arms and face.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the singer gave some <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/06\/25\/entertainment\/celine-dion-has-seizure-in-doc-amid-stiff-person-syndrome-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insight into her battle with the syndrome<\/a> in her interview with Hoda Kotb as she shared how <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/06\/07\/entertainment\/celine-dion-singing-with-stiff-person-syndrome-is-like-being-strangled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">difficult it has become for her to sing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like somebody is strangling you,\u201d the Grammy winner told Kotb on \u201cToday.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s like somebody is pushing your larynx\/pharynx this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celine Dion looked happy and healthy in her latest Instagram post as she wished her followers a happy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,61608,172,8723,184794,171,1165,975,44599,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-409044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-illnesses","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-celebrity-social-media","12":"tag-celine-dion","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-thanksgiving","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115623431085473625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}