Bella Hadid opened up about her battle with Lyme disease on the occasion of her five-month recovery milestone.
The 26-year-old model acquired the illness in 2012 and confessed to having a recent health crisis due to a low-grade infection triggered by an emergency tooth canal procedure.
The celebrity, who shared skin photos of an outbreak, explained that the antibiotics and Motrin 800 she was taking for her jaw infection caused her to “break out randomly, I get what feels like lesions.”
She opened up about her situation on TikTok on Sunday and said: ‘I appear sick as a dog compared to what I look like now.
‘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.
‘You can only wonder why my face changes the way it doesn’t and this is why. End of story.
‘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 my little body [sic]’.
Bella proceeded to reveal details about how her body changes as a result of her illness.
She admitted: ‘This is me on a decent day by the way.
‘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 so I could try to update you guys before the extraction.
‘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 [sic]’.
At the age of 16, Gigi Hadid’s sibling was formally diagnosed with Lyme disease.
