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Irwin is currently competing on the U.S. version of the dancing competition, and while he scored his highest marks yet yesterday his sister was nowhere to be seen. She has relocated with her family to support Rob, but it turns out they have been struck down with a sickness that left it impossible for them to support Rob in the studio, “Chandler, Grace and I all got a bug and I’ve completely lost my voice now … so we will be cheering (quietly) from our living room for Robert and Witney on @dancingwiththestars,” Bindi wrote alongside a picture of her young family.” “They have an incredible dance for Halloween week, beyond proud of their hard work and dedication.” Bindi, who won the American version of DWTS back in 2015, has also faced her own health challenges this year. Bindi previously underwent emergency surgery in May, which meant she missed a gala honouring her late father. Last year, Bindi shared that she had been suffering for years with endometriosis. Her story quickly resonated with hundreds of thousands of other Aussie women who had been struggling in silence. While she was nervous to open up publicly, she’s now grateful she was brave enough to do so. “It is scary when you open up about your most vulnerable and painful times, when you talk about when you felt you were sitting in a very large hole and didn’t know if you were going to crawl out,” she told The Courier-Mail. Before she shared her story, Bindi revealed that she struggled with people judging her without being aware of the battle she was fighting privately. “It took me so long to talk about it, nobody knew what was happening to me except my mum (Terri Irwin), my brother Robert and my husband Chandler (Powell). “Everyone else thought I was becoming this flaky person because I would bow out of commitment after commitment at the last minute because I was in so much pain,” she added before explaining how uncomfortable she was with being asked when she planned on having more children. “When I went through endo and people would ask, ‘When are you and Chandler having another child?’ I used to think, ‘If you could see on the outside what it feels like on the inside you would never ask.’ It would completely change the way you approach somebody. “You know, some people don’t want another child, some can’t have another child, and some people have gone through enormous loss and heartbreak before they have their much wanted child.” She then paused, before adding: “I think you have to be kind in every part of life. If you have the urge to ask, take a second. If someone has good news to share, they’ll share it.”
