Businesswoman, model and football agent Wanda Nara has opened up about how she is suffering with leukaemia.

Speaking on Italian television, the wife of footballer Mauro Icardi filled her face with tears as she spoke about the disease she lives with.

The moment came as the Argentine started her participation in the Italian TV show ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Wanda Nara put in one of the best performances, but then opened up about a much more personal matter.

Wanda Nara’s illness

Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that originates in the bone marrow and can cause numerous infections and bleeding.

In Wanda Nara‘s case, the disease was detected in July, as revealed by Argentinean journalist Jorge Lanata, after the model from Boulonge had a routine check-up.

Wanda has now revealed on RAI what it was like when her illness was detected.

“I had to travel to Milan and whenever I travel I always have routine tests,” she said.

“The values were a bit strange and the doctors started to see things.”

She also revealed how difficult it was for her in hospital when she saw the television reporting on her illness.

“It was turning on the television in the hospital and seeing ‘Wanda is ill’ and I cried without knowing what I really had”, she recalled.

Wanda Nara explains why she is doing ‘Dancing with the Stars’

She also spoke about why the importance of her children in supporting her and explained why she decided to participate in a new reality TV show.

“When the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ proposal came to me, we had obviously already stabilised the situation”, she said.

“I’m dancing to show that I’m fine.”