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Made In Chelsea’s James Dunmore opens up about losing both of his sisters to cystic fibrosis

Made in Chelsea’s James Dunmore has opened up about losing both of his sisters in the space of 20 months.

The model who is in a relationship with Lucy Watson spoke to the Daily Mail about the sad time in his life.

Half of the sufferers of cystic fibrosis do not live to see their thirties. Both of his sisters has the disease and eventually died within two years of each other.

The deaths of his older sisters, Josie and Lucinda, have moved the 27-year-old to fight for more funding for CF charities.

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James recalls treasured memories from family holidays in Disney World, Barbados, Cuba and Dubai, knowing his time with his sisters would be short.

He reveals to the Daily Mail that he has not yet been tested to see if he carries the CF gene, which he could pass on to his children.

‘When the time comes, I’ll be tested, I think everyone should be.’

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He recalled how his sisters didn’t let the disease stop them living life to the full as they enjoyed a wide range of hobbies and took all of their treatment in their stride.

‘They never moaned about their condition. They never held it against me that I didn’t have it. We never discussed them dying.’

‘Every day the girls took a cocktail of 30 pills each, along with daily nebuliser treatments and physiotherapy. Twice a year, they would be admitted to hospital for intravenous antibiotics to fight infections.’

His sister Lucinda passed away first, very suddenly after her 19th birthday after falling ill with the flu. 20 months Jodi, who never fully recovered after losing Lucinda, became breathless on a shopping trip and later died. She was 22 at the time.

‘Both situations unraveled so fast and suddenly they were just gone,’

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James is going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust’s Resolutions campaign.

He spoke about how he felt he ‘owed it to them’ to campaign for improvements in the lives of CF sufferers.

‘I can’t help my sisters, but if there’s even a slight chance that raising money for vital research can help other families not have to go through what we did, then I want to try to make that happen.’

The model is also backing a petition which calls for the new drug Orkambi to be available on the NHS, the United Kingdom’s free healthcare system. The petition has already been signed by more than 114,000 people as the medicine dramatically increases life expectancy for CF sufferers.

You can donate to his campaign here.

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