YouTuber Tzuyang Shares Incurable Health Condition While Addressing Criticism Over Her Appearance

Popular mukbang YouTuber Tzuyang recently shared that she suffers from an incurable disease while talking about the recent criticism for her appearance.

On October 25, Tzuyang appeared on MBC’s entertainment show, Point of Omniscient Interfere, and revealed her daily lifestyle.

During the candid appearance, the YouTuber shared that after her last appearance on the program three months ago, her subscriber count went up by 400,000, and expressed gratitude. She then proceeded to address the controversy surrounding the glasses she was wearing in her previous appearance.

Tzuyang recalled receiving a barrage of negative comments after her last appearance, when she wore thick glasses on camera. Since the glasses kept slipping off her nose, many netizens criticized her for “pretending to be cute.”

Regarding this, Tzuyang explained that the lenses were too heavy, and hence they kept slipping down. But people took it the wrong way. She then revealed, “I have an incurable eye disease. People ask why I don’t get LASIK or LASEK surgery…But I can’t.” She continued to explain that she had a rare disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes deterioration of retinal function and damages visual cells. It is a rare and genetic disease that is still being researched.

Tzuyang then made a heartbreaking revelation, stating, “I might go blind later.” The YouTuber wasn’t exaggerating since her condition is known to cause gradual degeneration of the photoreceptor cells in the retina, eventually leading to blindness. Broadcast Lee Dong Woo was also diagnosed with this condition in 2004 and was declared legally blind in 2010.

However, as the disease progresses differently in different individuals, there is also a chance that Tzuyang might not lose her vision too quickly. Early diagnosis, lifestyle management, and the use of assistive devices are said to retard the progression of the disease.