Two weeks after celebrating five months of sobriety, Bella Hadid has revealed the extensive history of her health struggles with Lyme disease, the tick-borne illness she originally contracted back in 2012.
The 26-year-old IMG Model's latest health scare came after undergoing a year ago and developing a low-grade infection underneath the neighboring tooth, which she now Monday.
Bella's doctors prescribed her antibiotics and Motrin 800 for the jaw infection after she landed in Florida a month ago, and she shared a selfie of her skin 'breaking out randomly, I get what feels like lesions.'
'I look sick as a dog compared to what I look like now,' Hadid - who boasts 66.5M TikTok/Instagram followers - explained via on Sunday.
'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.'
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Two weeks after celebrating five months of sobriety, Bella Hadid has revealed the extensive history of her health struggles with Lyme disease, the tick-borne illness she originally contracted back in 2012
The 26-year-old IMG Model's latest health scare came after undergoing emergency root canal surgery a year ago and developing a low-grade infection underneath the neighboring tooth, which she now plans on having extracted Monday
The half-Dutch, half-Palestinian beauty said most of her pictures/selfies look like [the selfie from Florida] 'on a normal basis when I'm flaring up.'
'You can only wonder why my face changes the way it doesn't and this is why.
End of story,' Bella 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.'
Hadid added: '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 my little body.'
The About You collaborator said she looks and feels like that picture 'most days' and apologized for 'the way that I shot covers and campaigns in that state for month.'
'This is me on a decent day by the way,' Bella went on.
'I would never be able to make one of these videos if I was at work having a flare up, or not feeling safe/calm in my environment as I am with my mom and horses the past four weeks.
I tried my Best Private University so I could try to update you guys before the extraction.'
Hadid added: 'Thank you for watching this and knowing a little more about me that is a huge part of my everyday life. It means more to me than you even know and I feel closer to you guys now.
Love you all a lot a lot a lot. My angels.'
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