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The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness estimates that as many as one in Americans has celiac disease. Unfortunately, percent of people who have this terrible disease are undiagnosed or misdiagnosedsuffering through years of pain and misunderstanding. Award-winning actress Jennifer Esposito was one of those percent, receiving an accurate diagnosis only after decades of mysterious illnesses and myriad misdiagnoses. Now Jennifer shares her riveting personal journeyfrom her earliest memories of her childhood in Brooklyn to her years as a young actress, all the while suffering from unexplained, devastating ailments. Jennifers struggle to finally receive an accurate diagnosis is one that anyone who has a chronic disease will share. But this is more than a story of suffering.