‘OutDaughtered’: Danielle Busby Illness: Her Battle With Autoimmune Disease!

Danielle and Adam Busby, stars of the show “OutDaughtered,” have openly discussed the unique parenting challenges they face due to Danielle’s autoimmune disease.

During the promotion of the ninth season premiere of OutDaughtered on Monday, July 10, Danielle, who is 39 years old, shared with Us Weekly –

“She used to not be able to get upstairs without feeling like I was gonna pass out. That’s just not a norm for me. I was always athletic and kind of fit and we’ve always taken care of ourselves. So for my body to go so down, it just was alarming.”

After giving birth to their quintuplets named Ava, Olivia, Hazel, Riley, and Parker in 2015, Danielle discovered a health issue. Alongside the quintuplets, the couple also has a 12-year-old daughter named Blayke.

Danielle had faced challenges with infertility and had previously tried conceiving through IVF before Blayke was born in 2011. Later on, she opted for a prescription called Femara, which helps boost fertility in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and this led to her first successful pregnancy.

When the couple decided to expand their family once more, Danielle resumed taking Femara, resulting in her pregnancy with the quintuplets.

Danielle Busby said-

“After I had [them], my body never kind of recovered because it was nonstop movement. I was living a life of adrenaline for years. So when my body started to slow down and they were in school and kindergarten — and well, first grade really — my body wasn’t used to this. And so I went into this shock.”

Danielle’s doctor diagnosed her with “migraines” and prescribed treatment for “fibromyalgia” due to her tense and inflamed muscles. However, Danielle explained that her condition is still being explored because she has both good and bad days.

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She continued-

“It’s hard sometimes to even explain what I’m feeling or how my body is reacting to something even in the view of Adam because he’s like, ‘You look fine, you [were] fine yesterday.’ It’s annoying, it’s frustrating and there’s days where I didn’t do anything extreme or off-set or something and [I] just will get up and I can’t move my hands and my feet and so … it’s an up and down journey.”

Adam, 41, revealed that while it is “definitely tough” to watch his wife battle her illness, he chooses to be “supportive” and make every effort to meet Danielle’s demands.

He explained-

“That’s [the] thing with an autoimmune disorder. You don’t know what it is and you don’t know when it’s gonna flare up and there’s all these, like, unknowns. Like, one day she could be perfectly fine or … all of a sudden the next day she can hardly get out of bed.”

Despite her highs and lows, Danielle adamantly said that she hadn’t experienced a migraine as of Monday in “probably six months.”

OutDaughtered returns after a two-year absence, adding to the Busby family’s joy. The family has been on the TLC show since its first season in 2016.

Adam explained his return to the reality show-

“We just picked up right where we left off. It felt like old times and it was cool just to see, like, the crew members that returned this past season, just because they’re like family to us.”