Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has been flooded with compliments as she was seen posing for a selfie while rounding up some of the moments that didn't make it to social media in April.
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Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has often been open about her anxiety struggles, even revealing how she was misdiagnosed as a child. The actress tells her social media followers if she is having a bad day or shares how she keeps zen such as doing some yoga in her dressing room.
But Samia, who is famed for playing Maria Windass in the ITV soap, wasn't always as in control of what was happened and on Loose Women in 2022, the Eccles-born star revealed that she found herself receiving an asthma diagnosis as a child when she was actually suffering from crippling anxiety.
"Everyone who knows me has always known I'm quite an anxious person," she said on the ITV show in August 2021. "I'm known for being a bit of a worrier and being really cautious with everything.
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"I've had anxiety since I was a child and when I was a child, my mum took me to the doctors and the doctor first diagnosed asthma because I couldn't get a deep breath. So they ended up giving me inhalers when I was about 11 thinking that it was asthma but it wasn't, it was anxiety."
In her latest update, Samia took to her Instagram Story and shared the personal side effect her own battle with her anxiety can have. She shared a picture of her nails with some appearing sore around her cuticles. "I always pick my fingers until they hurt when I'm overthinking," she explained.
The mum-of-two continued: "I do it without realising... When my gingers look like this I know I need to slow my thoughts down... #anxiety 'honesttruth #monkeymind." Samia, 41, also added a GIF which read: "Mental
Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has been flooded with compliments as she was seen posing for a selfie while rounding up some of the moments that didn't make it to social media in April.
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Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has been flooded with compliments from her co-stars and fans as she during her time away from the cobbles. The actress has faced a busy start to the year in the ITV soap where she is famed for playing Maria Windass - nee Connor and Sutherland.
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