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Mikayla Matthews is getting real about health anxiety
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, who was recently on a brand trip in Costa Rica, posted a message to her Instagram Stories on April 16, touching on her fears about returning home following the trip and her anxieties that her chronic illness would flare up as a result
Matthews has been very open about her struggle with a chronic illness, and has spoken at length about her belief that mold toxins in her house contributed to her condition
Mikayla Matthews is sharing some of her health anxieties with fans.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 25, posted a message to her Instagram Stories on Thursday, April 16, as she returned from a trip in Costa Rica with former Dancing with the Stars pro Lindsay Arnold’s The Movement Club.
Posting from her airplane seat, the momfluencer shared that she had the “worst anxiety going back home to Utah.”
Though she wasn’t sure how to explain her anxieties to her followers, Matthews added that she was scared to lose “all the progress” she had made with her health while she was away from home.
Mikayla Matthews’s Instagram Stories post.
Credit: Mikayla Matthews/Instagram
Matthews has spoken online and on Mormon Wives about dealing with a chronic illness, recently revealing that the name of her disease is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, or CIRS, which she said was “brought on [by] prolonged exposures to toxins (mold).”
On another recent Instagram Stories post, the momfluencer shared that “[mold illness] has ruined just everything in my body. Nerves, skin, hair,brain, gut, liver, hormones, etc.”
However, in the April 16 post, Matthews said that her skin had been “manageable and feeling more and more normal,” as of late, and returning to Utah was scaring her.
Matthews added that she hated being worried about her condition flaring up again, and was nervous that she might be in “more pain and not able to function the way I have been the last month.”
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Matthews first opened up about her chronic illness in a post on Instagram in September 2024, revealing that she had been “fighting for my life” while filming the first season of Mormon Wives, in part because of mysterious skin flare-ups.
Back in 2023, Matthews shared that she’s experienced chronic eczema since childhood, but suspected her other symptoms that would later be diagnosed as CIRS began after getting breast implants in March of that year.
The influencer, who is mom to son Beckham, 8, and daughters Haven, 5½, Tommie, 3, and Lottie June, 8 months, with her husband Jace Terry, also said that, as a result of her struggles with her chronic illness, her “mom guilt” has “eaten [her] alive.”
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