Remember Reggie from Big Brother? Her son is sick, and she needs your help.

Remember Reggie from Big Brother?

She’s the wonderful women who won Big Brother (and Australia’s heart) back in 2003.

These days, Reggie is a single mum to Mia, 6, and Lucas, 4.

Sadly, Reggie is also legally blind and lives on a disability pension and she’s struggling to raise funds to support her son Lucas, who suffers from cystic fibrosis.

People with cystic fibrosis develop excessively thick and sticky mucus within the lungs, airways and the digestive system — and those with the incurable condition must undergo constant medical treatments and physiotherapy from birth, according to Cystic Fibrosis Australia.

But there’s one thing that could help Lucas – and that’s a speciality vest that would help him breathe.

The vest, which must be used two to four times a day, reportedly assists in moving mucas from the lungs to larger airways so that it can be coughed up.

The vest costs around $10,000, and that’s money Reggie doesn’t have.

As Mamamia reported earlier this year, Reggie’s Big Brother prize money ran out some time ago, having been spent on medical bills, two divorces, unemployment and an entertainment conman who said he could get her a TV career.

“I’m so sick of people who don’t know me thinking I’m rich and irresponsible with money,” she told Woman’s Day in June

“I live from fortnight to fortnight. There isn’t any money left over for holidays or taking the kids somewhere special,” she said.

One of Reggie’s friends recently started a Go Fund Me page, asking people to donate money for Lucas’ vest. The page for Lucas’ vest has raised just over $7000 so far and has been shared over 300 times, but has yet to reach its $10,000 target.

As Chrissie Swan said in a Facebook post last week:

“If Reggie made you smile all those years ago on BB why not throw a few dollars her way so she can buy a special vest for her beautiful son who is ill with cystic fibrosis.”

You can support the campaign to buy Lucas a vest, here.

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