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Perrie Edwards reveals she was born without a sense of smell and went undiagnosed until her kitchen caught fire when she was a child


The singer, 30, was born without a sense of smell due to complications suffered in the womb - a condition called congenital anosmia.

However, she explained that she had only been diagnosed with the condition when she failed to realise her kitchen was on fire in her childhood home, because she couldn't smell the burning (pictured last month) Fellow famous sufferers have included William Wordsworth, INXS singer Michael Hutchence and actor Bill Pullman. Last month, Perrie dropped her second single Tears, the follow-up to April's Forget About Us, which was number one for two weeks on the Big Top 40 chart

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