‘Before I landed my job on This Morning I had to hide my blindness at work’ [Video]

TV star Claire Sisk has opened up about feeling as though she had to hide her disability from work, before finding fame.

The social media personality and This Morning star, who has also made appearances on the likes of Steph’s Packed Lunch, suffered two strokes at the age of 29, leading to a loss of her sight.

At the time, Claire was a single mum working for an airline service, and hid her deteriorating eyesight from those around her, before a huge wake-up call.

‘It changed me completely,’ Claire recalled to Metro.co.uk, remembering waking up one morning in November 2017, two months after her second stroke, and ‘could barely see anything’.

‘I carried on working, and I hid it from my work, because I wasn’t aware of the Disability Discrimination Act – I thought they would sack me.

‘And I also had a child, I was a single mum, and I thought “Oh god, what will people …