She remained active on television, however, and acted as spokesperson for Skippy peanut butter for nearly 20 years. It was while making that movie that Funicello began to experience the first symptoms of MS, although she did not know it at the time. In she announced that she had been suffering from MS for five years. Funicello was born in Utica, New York, and the family moved to California when she was a child.
Funicello first caught the public eye as a teenager in the s when she was one of the original members of Disney's "The Mickey Mouse Club. In later life, she was remembered for her valiant fight against multiple sclerosis, a crippling disease of the nervous system that she developed in the late s.
It led the once-vivacious singer and actress to depend first on a cane, then a walker and finally a wheelchair. Funicello was born in Utica, New York, and the family moved to California when she was a child.
Her father, Joe, was a mechanic and her mother, Virginia, devoted herself to her daughter's show-business career once she became a Mouseketeer. Dugan , Apr 8, So very sad. I'm bummed. RIP Annette. Location: Westerville, Ohio. MekkaGodzilla , Apr 8, But at least she is out of pain. Farewell to another piece of my childhood. RIP to my favorite Mouseketeer. JamieC , Apr 8, From the HuffPo story Funicello first lost the ability to walk in , and later lost the ability to speak in Family members told "Extra" that they were by her side when she was taken off life support, after being in a MS coma for years.
Location: Golden Gate. I've been carrying a torch for Annette since Strikingly attractive well into adult- and motherhood. Classy with her illness. And by all accounts, as nice as she was pretty.
The obvious SHF link:. The duo reunited in for the parody flick "Back to the Beach. A few years later, in , Funicello revealed she suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, an illness she battled bravely and often with her trademark pluck and grin.
In , a fire damaged the wheelchair-bound Funicello's Encino home , damaging some of the memorabilia stored within the structure. Funicello had three children with her first husband, Jack Gilardi, and had been remarried to Glen Holt since Support for LAist comes from.
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