FORMER Towie star Leah Wright took to Instagram last night to share a heartbreaking photo of her son lying in a hospital bed.
In the picture Christopher, 8, who has type one diabetes, can be seen comfortably dressed in loose fitting clothing with his eyes shut, laying in a white hospital bed surrounded by wires and monitors.
He has one hand resting on his stomach next to a partly drunk bottle of water, the other resting by his side wrapped in a bandage.
A brown cardboard bowl can be seen sitting on Christopher’s lap in case he might be sick.
Fortunately Christopher is now ok, with Leah, 45, adding in text over the top of the photo, "Happy Sunday all ok now though" followed by an exasperated open-mouthed emoji.
It’s been around five and a half years since Leah got an official diagnosis of Christopher’s diabetes, posting a captioned photo of her son to Instagram at the beginning of the year to commemorate the milestone.
She wrote: "5 years ago today you my precious boy was diagnosed with #typeonediabetes I’m so so proud of how far you’ve come.
"It hasn’t been easy as anyone with this illness knows. You have cried, I have cried for you. But you have given me the strength to take care of you.
"I salute all the mums and dads taking care of children with type one diabetes."
Leah featured on the highly popular ITV show, The Only Way Is Essex, between 2011 and 2015, spanning series’ 2 and 9 as well as 11 to 14.
She first joined the show following the success of cousins Mark Wright, 38, and Jessica Wright, 39, who each featured for a number of years before Leah’s Towie debut.
Leah left the show after five on-and-off years to pursue presenting work and start her own recruitment business, ‘V Recruitment Solutions’.
Fans of the TV personality may also remember Leah featuring in the film Dracula’s Raven House back in 2018: a horror number set in London during the late 1800s.
In the past year Leah has been passionately speaking out about domestic violence, as a survivor herself, and doing what she can to raise awareness of struggles people may be facing inside the home.
Collaborating with the charity, Refuge, Leah spoke on their podcast about topics including economic abuse, feeling isolated from friends and family, and how a person being domestically abused might not at first realise it’s happening to them.
