I think Marisol Maldonado has taken a very brave step, career-wise, to come out like this about her autoimmune disease. Being a model is a very physical profession and as those of us with ICI know, coming out at work, any kind of work, is a big deal. I'd like to send her a really big thank you for raising awareness of autoimmune disease in general.
I wonder what the song/video title means? Her Diamonds.
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
'Cause I can't help her now
Losing her sparkle? Here's what Rob Thomas says about it:
The album’s first single, the kaleidoscopic “Her Diamonds,” is the most personal song Thomas has yet committed to disc. Rob’s wife Marisol is courageously battling an autoimmune disease, and “Her Diamonds” was written “about a couple dealing with that on a day-to-day basis,” explains Thomas. “There’s an incredible amount of sadness that comes with something like that. There are moments where I think I flirted with a thinner personal line than I’ve ever done before, but, really, I’m writing a song about how people deal with hard times, and that hard time is universal, that hard time can be anything."
http://www.robthomasmusic.com/biography
Singer Rob Thomas and his wife Marisol Maldonado-Thomas attend day one of the 2009 U.S. Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 31, 2009 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.(August 30, 2009 - Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images North America)
From Wikipedia:
Marisol Maldonado is a Puerto Rican American model and is married to Rob Thomas (lead singer of Matchbox Twenty). She is a native of Queens, New York City, and her parents are of Puerto Rican descent. She met her future husband while vacationing with her friends in Montreal in May 1998.[1]
Maldonado is the stepmother to Thomas' son from a previous relationship, Maison Avery Williams (b. July 10, 1998).
She appeared in the music video Smooth, a collaboration between Thomas and Santana, as well as Thomas' video for Ever the Same and his DVD supplement to the CD ...Something To Be in a documentary photo shoot clip at Mark Seliger's studio.[citation needed]
She and Thomas were married on October 2, 1999.[2]
Maldonado suffers from a rare autoimmune disorder similar to lupus erythematosus.[3] The song "Her Diamonds," which was the lead single from her husband's second solo studio album Cradlesong, is about her battle with the disease.[4]
Has it been said which ICI(or autoimmune disease) Marisol Maldonado-Thomas has?
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia: "Maldonado suffers from a rare autoimmune disorder similar to lupus erythematosus.[3]"
ReplyDeletemy beautiful angelic e xgirfriend is battling Multiple sclerosis and i can relate to him being always by her side no matter what..
ReplyDeleteI saw him live and i have always felt like he wrote songs that spoke to me. I have lupus and this is one of my favorite songs.. my husbands too
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly in a class all by itself.
DeleteThanks for commenting,
Sherril
the first time i heard her diamonds i thought that sounds like me. that song is so real for me. i wish his wife would go public with her true illness. autoimune is many things. I have autoimune also called undifferenced mixed connective tissue diaseas which i experience lupus, polymyositis,scloderma and never ending other problems that are a cause of umctd. thanks, teresa
DeleteThank you for your comment, Teresa. I wish you well in your journey with ICI.
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