Teen Mom Leah Messer’s daughter Ali, 11, rides hot pink wheelchair after star cries over tween’s muscular dystrophy
TEEN Mom Leah Messer's daughter Ali, 11, rode on a hot pink wheelchair after the reality star cried over her tween's muscular dystrophy.
, 29, shared how her daughter was using the power chair in an .
While using the joystick, Ali steered her wheelchair carefully across the sidewalk.
With glasses on her face, Leah's pre-teen daughter tied her long and curly hair up.
The caption of the clip stated: "My heart."
The Taylor Swift song, Stay Beautiful, played during the short clip.
Back in 2014, Ali had been diagnosed with Titin Myotonic muscular dystrophy, which is a rare form of progressive weakness disease.
Ali has often been encouraged to use her power wheelchair to conserve her energy and to prevent harmful falls.
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In the next Instagram story, the star shared photos of the black shirts that said: "Rare Disease Awareness."
The caption said: "#TeamAli. Thank you!"
The star is also the mother of Aleeah, also 11, and Adalynn, eight.
She shares two of the girls with Corey Simms, who she parted ways with back in 2011, while she also shares Adalynn with ex-husband Jeremy Calvert.
'FINDING A CURE'
Recently, the star spoke about Ali's muscular dystrophy diagnosis to reunion hosts .
Dr. Drew said on the show: "A quick thing on Ali's disorder, her muscular dystrophy - I caught that the doctor was changing her prognosis a bit, because they now have a bigger cohort with her rare genetic, specific problem, right?"
Leah replied: "I have so much good news about this - I have just partnered with a not-for-profit organisation and sent her muscle biopsy from 2012 to OSU - Ohio State University..."
The TV star had to take a breath as she started to tear up and mentioned: "Guys this has been a hell of a 12 years... for treatment and a cure...
"If they had us stop looking for a diagnosis, I would never be 12 years into it, we're finding a cure in research."
She added: "Don't tell me f***ing science isn't real because that's my daughter's livelihood."
'MIDDLE SCHOOLERS'
Earlier this week, the TV personality shared two photos of her 11-year-old daughters as they were getting ready for .
The first snap showed Ali and Aleeah as they posed with their younger sibling Adalynn, while the second snap captured the twins posing together.
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Leah captioned the : “This Mama officially has two middle schoolers!"
She continued to document their big day on her by sharing a snap of the twin girls while the Lady Bri song - Good, Good Day - played.
