Naomi Kingery of The Diabetic Diva
Type 1 Diabetes, September 2001

“The Sugar Free Series shares an honest outlook on emotions involved in living with Diabetes and empowers readers to embrace their bittersweet life.

The Diabetic Diva

At the age of twelve, Naomi Kingery was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes which changed her life in more ways than she could imagine. With a unique diagnosis in India, where she was living in India as a missionary kid at the time, Kingery saw very quickly how challenging Diabetes would be. In the hospital bed she gave herself the nickname “The Diabetic Diva” which was her way of accepting the new life she would begin to live. After the first few years of diagnosis she learned that Diabetes was not only a physical journey but one that was emotional, which led her to authoring  The Sugar Free Series. Her series currently consists of two books, Sugar Free Me and Sugar Free Teens, which speak about the emotions involved in choosing to cope with Diabetes every day. She now writes a weekly blog to echo the same messages she shared in her book, as well as a glimpse into her personal life as an Advocate in the diabetic community. As a Medtronic patient ambassador, board member of diabeticrockstar.com, and partner of organizations such as Juvenile Diabetes No Limits Foundation, Kingery uses old voice to spread hope to the hopeless. Her target audiences are those who are younger with Diabetes and the loved ones who support them. She often talks about her teen years with Diabetes, since she entered the teen years as a diabetic, and is very hopeful as she has survived and excelled during her teen years as a now twenty one year old. Kingery is passionate about learning all of the sweet, and bittersweet, challenges that Diabetes brings her way and will continue to share these lessons learned with all of those in the Diabetes Community. She attributes much of her success to those in the Diabetes Community as they have shown her that she is not alone, which is the primary reason she has chosen to begin to seek a more active role within the community to make this message even louder.