Bella Hadid has shared an emotional update about her experience with lyme disease, prompting Google search for 'Bella Hadid’s Lyme Disease' and 'Bella Hadid illness'. It comes days after Gigi Hadid gave fans an update into Bella's medical issues, explaining that she had 'just finished a long and intense treatment for Lyme disease' and was eagerly anticipating Bella's return to the runway - although it's unlikely to be this coming fashion week.
What happened to Bella Hadid? Her lyme disease explained
Explaining further about her long history of medical issues due to lyme disease, Bella posted a picture of her medical records on Instagram that show she has suffered symptoms such as fatigue, memory disturbances, sleep disorders and depression since she was 15 years old. Bella Hadid, now aged 26, described experiencing 'invisible suffering' and thanked her family, friends and fans for supporting her through it all.
What did Gigi Hadid say about Bella Hadid's lyme disease?
Last week, Gigi gave fans an update about Bella Hadid's lyme disease treatment - clarifying previous comments that made fans think Bella might return to modelling sooner than thought.
'Just wanna touch on this post from last week,' she wrote on her Instagram story. 'Bella just finished a long and intense treatment for Lyme disease. (Didn’t want some to take my post as a promise she’ll be back for shows this next season...). Adding, 'I'm so proud of her and excited for her comeback whenever she's ready.' After Gigi's comments, it's clear that her sister is taking all the time she needs before she returns to the fashion scene.
Bella Hadid’s lyme disease has plagued her for years, and the model has been extremely transparent about it's impact. In March, Hadid shared on TikTok that a 'low-grade infection underneath her tooth' had caused a Lyme disease-related flare-up. She also wrote in the caption of the post, 'The Lyme is attacking the places that are suffering ie tooth, jaw, gut, brain, spine, bones, etc oh and the entire nervous system.' She continued, 'Any minor trauma to the body whether it’s physically or mentally can cause Lyme to flare up.'
After doctors prescribed her antibiotics and the pain relief medication to treat the jaw infection in March, she revealed a selfie of her bare face 'breaking out randomly'. Hadid explained, ‘Most of my pictures /selfies look like this on a normal basis when I’m flaring up. (When I’m working a lot, FW, stressed etc, (aka always) my skin changes colour, I break out randomly, I get (what feels like) lesions, lethargy, chronic anxiety, zero motivation or purpose, leaky gut, adrenals, depressed.'
She continued, 'That's why I hate looking in the mirror or taking pictures especially lately, truly wanting to throw up at the sight of myself constantly. Years and years of this. If I'm all dolled up maybe I'll try for the girls, but man is it hard to do this as your profession while also feeling/looking sick like this.'
'And if you look back at work pictures from the past eight years you can tell the difference between me when my Lyme flares up and me when I'm healthy. She's a different girl. I feel so bad for her.'
The model also revealed how the pain effects her day to day, 'Basically, the nerve pain from my jaw ended up going down my entire meridian of my body, and to the touch, everywhere all the way down my body through all my lymph nodes. This pain, man. Something real different. Real different.'
The mother of the two models, former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills starYolanda Hadid,announced in 2015 that she, Bella and her son, Anwar Hadid, had all been diagnosed with the disease in 2012.
The reality TV star told the audience at the 2015 Global Lyme Alliance Gala ,'When my two youngest children, Bella and Anwar, were diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease in early 2012, watching my babies struggle in silence in order to support me in my journey struck the deepest core of hopelessness inside of me.'