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Bella Hadidis offering a rare glimpse into how she treats her autoimmune disorders.
On Friday, the 24-year-old model posted a series of photos on her Instagram page, showing her hooked up to an IV. “Living with a few chronic autoimmune disease = always finding time for my IVs,” shecaptionedthe photos.
Hadid was diagnosed withLyme diseasein 2012 alongside her younger brotherAnwar, 21, and their mom,Yolanda, 57.
In 2016, when Bella was 20, the star opened up to PEOPLEabout struggling with Lyme diseasewhile working as a model.
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FormerReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar Yolanda told PEOPLE that the severe symptoms can sometimes “bring you to your knees.”
“There are rough days when you sleep 12 hours, you wake up at 11 and you can’t get out of bed, with severe joint pain, brain fog, anxiety. There are a lot of symptoms that you can’t see from the outside but bring you to your knees on the inside,” she said at the same 2016 Global Lyme Alliance gala event.
“You can never get rested, that’s the best way to explain it,” the Hadid matriarch shared at the time. “Life goes on and you try to keep going. Especially with the younger generations, they have to keep pushing.”
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Bella’s older sisterGigi, 25, — who has been candid abouther own struggles with a different autoimmune disorder, Hashimoto’s disease— has also previously spoken out about what it was like to grow up with her mom and siblings battling Lyme.
“Growing up, having three of my family members sick made me very independent,” she toldEllein February 2019. “My mom couldn’t drive or get out of bed some days, so I took my brother to school with me, or I made lunch.”
“But I also felt a lot of guilt for being the one person in the family who didn’t understand what they were going through,” Gigi added. “It’s hard when your whole family is in pain and you don’t know what to do.”
source: people.com
