Babs powell biography for kids

  • babs powell biography for kids

    • Pain's People: Former TV dancer Babs Powell suffers from a debilitating arthritic condition caused in part by her strenuous career


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    Three years ago, at the age of 61, former Pan's People dancer Babs Powell awoke with an unusual feeling of stiffness in her hips and strange flu-like symptoms.

    For a woman who only six years before had sailed around the world and was just about to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, this was not an ailment she anticipated.

    Seventies heyday: Babs Powell, pictured with actor husband Robert, suffers from PMR

    'At first I put it down to doing too much exercise and I tried to ignore it,' says Babs, who is married to the actor Robert Powell. The couple have two grown-up children, Kate and Barney, and live in West London.

    'But the symptoms would not go away and I started to panic, wondering how on earth I was going to manage the climb.'

    After a month, the symptoms spread and she began to experience headaches and a pain behind the eyes.

    'My