Alice became chronically ill at 14, left school, and took a few GCSEs from bed - a tragic heroine minus the glamour, plot arc, or dramatic lighting. The patron saint of Bedbound Overachievers, she discovered that pushing harder just made her sicker, which really ruins the whole inspirational‑montage vibe. 

 

Her illness worsened until she was fully bed bound for years, stairlift installed, social life of a hibernating hedgehog, zero tolerance for light or sound, and the daily routine of an exhausted sick sloth. She couldn’t even watch bladdy telly. Dark times indeed. Literally.

 

After endless hospital visits, tests, and “have you tried yoga?” style treatments, a positive glandular fever test finally led to an M.E. diagnosis.

 

Years (of physio, rest, relapses, repeat) later, she clawed her way back enough to chase her dream career as a singer-songwriter in London. But chronic illness loves to kick you right in the fanny, and after a few “good-ish” years she relapsed and became housebound again. Performing career: paused. Survival mode: resumed.

 

In 2020, still mostly horizontal, Alice started drawing chronic-illness art on her iPad and posting it - along with memes and painfully honest updates - on a new Instagram page. She built a community of fellow spoonie warriors, and from her bed recorded her first song parody: Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” reimagined as “Vulnerable” for immunocompromised folks in the pandemic. A few parodies later, she’d found something that made her - and hopefully others - feel less alone.

 

Alice threw herself into raising awareness of chronic and invisible illnesses through songs, sketches, and parodies, saying the quiet parts out loud (and usually in harmony).

 

Now diagnosed with ME, PMDD, POTS, Autonomic Dysfunction, ADHD, and IBS - a full (gluten, dairy, and joy free) alphabetti spaghetti soup - she shares messages about ambulatory wheelchair users, disabled body confidence, women’s health, mental health etc, always with humour, honesty, and maximum relatability.

 

She even became the face of Transport for London’s “Please Offer Me a Seat” campaign, proving that people who look fine can still be dealing with invisible disabilities - and achieving the impossible: getting Londoners to pay attention.

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Sense Awards 'INFLUENCER OF THE YEAR' 2022 runner up, Alice’s image titled 'Disabled Body Confidence' taken by photographer Nirish Shakya, was one of the Portrait of Britain 2023 winners, which was shown on billboards across the UK, (I know right?!)​​​