Chiara Ferragni has become a blood donor . She announced it on her social media profiles where she published a photo of herself smiling and serene, lying in a clinic: the red bag on the right, with her free arm making the "victory" gesture. A month ago her husband - after a delicate operation for ulcers and internal bleeding - had thanked all the donors, without whom the operation would not have been the same. And his wife Chiara - always close to her family - decided not to stand by and took the first step.

Hence the invitation to his almost 30 million followers: « I have wanted to become a blood donor for a long time and today I finally made my first donation . A small gesture which however is not so small: a single donation helps at least three recipient patients (each bag is divided into plasma, platelets and red blood cells) and the donated blood also helps research into many diseases and pathologies."
«Donating blood – continues the digital entrepreneur – also has advantages for the donor : with each donation various preventive medicine screenings are carried out. It is taken for granted that hospital facilities have a lot of blood available but I was told that instead encouraging people to donate is very important because there is an ever-increasing need : if you have always wanted to do it and have never tried, don't be afraid, everything the procedure is quick and absolutely painless. Thank you to all the donors for saving the lives of thousands of people, including my husband's. I'm proud to have become one too."

Ferragni's gesture comes after the boom in donations that occurred following Fedez's operation. “Without you I wouldn't be here,” the rapper said to the many donors, promising to commit himself in the future to shining a spotlight on the topic. Among the comments on the influencer's post were many messages of support and approval from celebrities and fans in raptures over the "great gesture of humanity".

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