I’m battling the same disease that killed my co-star’s sister, reveals A Place in the Sun’s Laura Hamilton

LAURA Hamilton has opened up about fighting the same disease that killed her co-star's sister.

The presenter, best known for fronting A Place in the Sun, suffers from immune thrombocytopenia - a disorder that can lead to excessive bruising and bleeding.

The bleeding results from unusually low levels of platelets - the cells that help blood clot.

Laura recently opened up about how her health is doing in a candid interview and spoke about her condition.

"I have something called ITP, Immune thrombocytopenia, which is low platelets count in my blood its quite an unknown disease," she told the .

"It sort of flares ups and downs depending on what's going on with my life and stress often brings it out."

Laura continued: "It was really mad a year ago I was filming A Place In The Sun with a lovely couple in France - Mark and Janine - and I just stood there and I had an insect bite on my leg and I started scratching it.

"I was like, 'Oh, I shouldn't have done that because I'm gonna have bruises on my leg from ITP.'"

Laura then learned that her co-star's sister had died from the condition.

She added: "Mark stopped and was like, 'How do you know what ITP is?'

"And he told me that really sadly his sister had died from ITP and he said it was really good how I was trying to raise awareness of it.

"It's one of them times where you think they could have been paired with anybody as a presenter and nobody knew about the ITP link."

Laura has starred as a presenter on A Place in the Sun for over ten years.