Coleen Nolan reveals swollen face after suffering from stress-related allergy due to sister Linda’s cancer battle

COLEEN Nolan has revealed how her face swollen while suffering from a stress-related allergy due to the news her sister is battling cancer again.

The Loose Women star opened up about the tough few weeks her family have been going through after it was discovered her elder sister Linda Nolan has secondary cancer.

Coleen revealed just how much of a toll the diagnosis ended up taking on her personally as she shared images of her extremely puffed up face on Monday.

The star - whose sister Bernie died of cancer in 2013 - may have suffered a painful allergic reaction, but she insisted she doesn't want people to feel sorry for her.

As a photo of her swollen and red face flashed on screen, she explained: "Because of all that, I got a stress-related allergy, so I got taken to hospital because they were frightened with anaphylactic shock and I thought, 'Nobody wants to see that on the telly.'

"I'm not sitting here saying feel sorry for me because Linda is going through a lot more stress, physically and mentally than me."

And the Nolan family have vowed to unite to cope with Linda's ordeal as a unit.

Coleen said: "We messaged each other and said, I remember getting a message from my older brother saying, 'Oh God, here we go again, but we'll do it.'

"And we will, we'll fight as a family, so if there's weeks I'm not here because Linda and the family needs me, I'm very privileged to have a job where I can do that because some people don't."

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