The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 25, posted<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Posting from her airplane seat, the momfluencer shared that she had the “worst anxiety going back home to Utah.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Mikayla Matthews’s Instagram Stories post. Matthews has spoken online and on Mormon Wives about dealing with a chronic illness, recently revealing that the name of her disease<\/a> is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, or CIRS, which she said was “brought on [by] prolonged exposures to toxins (mold).”<\/p>\n On another recent Instagram Stories post, the momfluencer shared that “[mold illness] has ruined just everything in my body<\/a>. Nerves, skin, hair,brain, gut, liver, hormones, etc.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n Matthews first opened up about her chronic illness<\/a> in a post on Instagram in September 2024, revealing that she had been \u201cfighting for my life\u201d while filming the first season of Mormon Wives, in part because of mysterious skin flare-ups.<\/p>\n Back in 2023, Matthews shared that she’s experienced chronic eczema<\/a> since childhood, but suspected her other symptoms that would later be diagnosed as CIRS began after getting breast implants in March of that year.<\/p>\n The influencer, who is mom to son Beckham, 8, and daughters Haven, 5\u00bd, 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.”<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Mikayla](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1b96872298cc55cec5e3cd39da6eaffd.jpeg\"\/)
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