While many people hope they live to a grand old age, Binky Felstead’s mother has revealed that she doesn’t plan on living past the age of 85.
Jane Felstead, who has starred in Made in Chelsea with her daughter, said she doesn’t want to lose her ‘dignity and independence’ in old age.
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday, the 66-year-old revealed her battle with Multiple Sclerosis has made her dread becoming infirm and reliant on her children in her old age.
She debated chef Rustie Lee, who said she wanted to live as long as possible like her grandparents, who were all over the age of 100 when they died.
Jane Felstead, who has starred in Made in Chelsea with her Binky daughter, revealed her plans to die at 85-years-old on Good Morning Britain on Monday
Jane chose the age of 85 because her children and grandchildren would be grown up and independent by then.
She said: ‘If I get to 85, if I’m upright and able and valuable in some way, I’ve done my grandchildren, they’ll all be in their 20s and my kids will be in their 50s and late forties, and I’m kind of thinking that’s quite a nice time to bow out.
‘The next stage, and I’ve witnessed it, is for you to lose your dignity and your independence and for me that would be the worst thing in the world.’
Jane was diagnosed with MS last year after years of believing she had fibromyalgia following a misdiagnosis from her doctors.
The reality TV star doesn’t want her children to take care of her basic needs when she can no longer take care of herself. Pictured with her daughter Binky in 2014
What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?
MS is an an immune system disorder. This is when something goes wrong with the immune system and it mistakenly attacks a healthy part of the body – in this case, the brain or spinal cord of the nervous system.
In MS, the immune system attacks the layer that surrounds and protects the nerves, called the myelin sheath. This damages and scars the sheath, and potentially the underlying nerves, meaning that messages travelling along the nerves become slowed or disrupted.
Exactly what causes the immune system to act in this way is unclear, but most experts think a combination of genetic and environmental factors is involved.
