Bachelorette Georgia Love reveals her secret health battle 

She’s the Channel 10 reporter who found love on The Bachelorette. 

But behind the often-shiny veneer of fame, Georgia Love has been struggling with a secret health battle. 

On Thursday, the 31-year-old revealed she’s been battling chronic fatigue for some time, which was beginning to affect her mental health.  

In an Interview with The Daily Telegraph, the former reality star revealed that after two years of suffering, she was finally diagnosed with iron deficiency.  

‘I was getting really run down and sick all the time, so I finally went to my doctor who did my bloods and found out I was iron deficient,’ she told the publication. 

‘I’ve honestly been a new person since I discovered and started treating it.’ 

An iron deficiency occurs when the iron stores in your body become depleted and it can cause a number of symptoms including fatigue, dizziness, and shortness of breath. 

Georgia further added that the ‘feeling of being run down’ all the time took a toll on her mental health and prevented her from wanting to socialise. 

‘I’d find myself never wanting to go out because I knew I’d wind up sick, or I was too sick to want to go out and in turn, those anti-social feelings spiralled my mental health and stress too,’ she added. 

Since being diagnosed with iron deficiency, Georgia upped her red meat intake and began taking an iron supplement, which she says has helped her to feel like ‘a new person’. 

It’s not the first time Georgia has been candid when it comes to discussing mental health, having previously spoken to Now To Love  about the importance of discussing men’s mental health. 

‘I really think that we need to be ‘talking’ [about men’s mental health],’ Georgia said last year. 

‘It needs to become something that’s more accepted, it’s more everyday. We’ve become so much better in the last few years about talking about things like testicular cancer and men’s health in general, like their physical health; but I think we just need to switch that over into the mental health sphere as well.’