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On Wednesday, September 17, supermodel Bella Hadid<\/a> posted an Instagram carousel<\/a> which included photos of her receiving medical treatment. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I always go MIA I love you guys,\u201d she captioned the post indicating that whatever was going on with Hadid medically had forced her to miss New York Fashion Week<\/a>. The next day, her mother and ex-RHOBH housewife Yolanda Hadid posted her own carousel<\/a>, which showed an ill Bella in a hospital environment undergoing a procedure. \u201cThe invisible disability of chronic neurological Lyme disease is hard to explain or understand for anyone,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAfter many years I stopped sharing my personal story because I needed an energetic shift,\u00a0time to focus on my healing rather than absorb other people\u2019s opinions about my journey.\u201d<\/p>\n Yolanda Hadid\u2019s post may have raised more questions that it answered, (especially for those who aren\u2019t well-versed in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/a>.) Below, what we know about Bella Hadid\u2019s condition, her mother\u2019s own health, and their shared diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to Yolanda Hadid\u2019s post, Bella has been in treatment for her chronic Lyme for a month. This isn\u2019t the longest Bella Hadid has received treatment for her health: in 2023<\/a>, she posted that she\u2019d recently completed \u201c100+ days of Lyme, chronic disease and co-infection treatment,\u201d and that she finally felt like herself. It\u2019s not clear if Hadid is at the same place or working with the same doctors now, but in 2023 she said she\u2019d be back \u201cwhen I\u2019m ready.\u201d She also thanked \u201cmy mommy for keeping all of my medical records, sticking by me , never leaving my side, protecting, supporting, but most of all, believing me through all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n Bella Hadid began sharing her diagnosis in 2012, alongside her mother and brother Anwar. According to People<\/a>, Hadid said she suffered from \u201cheadaches, insomnia, light and noise sensitivity, brain fog, anxiety, confusion, joint pain, disordered eating, nausea and weight loss and gain\u201d beginning at age 14. According to Hadid, things manifested \u201cmore aggressively when I turned 18.\u201d<\/p>\n Infamously, all of this played out on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, where not everyone believed Yolanda Hadid\u2019s diagnosis.<\/p>\n In season 6 of RHOBH, a major plotline was whether Yolanda Hadid indeed had chronic Lyme or rather if she was suffering from \u201cMunchausen syndrome.\u201d As Lisa Rinna read on camera<\/a> from Wikipedia, Munchausen syndrome \u2014 now more often called factitious disorder<\/a> \u2014 is a psychological disorder where \u201cthose affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves.\u201d Rinna was one of the most skeptical, later telling the L.A. Times<\/a> she almost left the show during her feud with Hadid. Kyle Richards hedged, saying Yolanda Hadid\u2019s symptoms were \u201ca very big umbrella\u201d of potential diagnoses.<\/p>\n Sara Foster, David Foster\u2019s daughter and Yolanda Hadid\u2019s then-stepdaughter, said she also had her doubts. \u201cWe don\u2019t comment to our friends on Yolanda\u2019s health. That\u2019s not for us to comment on,\u201d she said on Jenny McCarthy\u2019s podcast in 2016<\/a>, speaking on her and sister Erin<\/a>\u2019s behalf. \u201cOnly she knows her journey, but what I will say is if you\u2019re capable of continuing to be on a reality show, you\u2019re not dying. Let\u2019s be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n By the time of the reunion, Lisa Rinna said she believed Yolanda about Lyme disease, and that Lisa Vanderpump was really who started the rumor. In 2016, Yolanda Hadid got her breast implants removed on an episode of\u00a0Real Housewives, after learning there was free-floating silicone in her body. \u201cYour health is your wealth so please make educated decisions, research the partial information you\u2019re given by our broken system before putting anything foreign in your body,\u201d she wrote in 2019<\/a>, reflecting on also getting her fillers and Botox dissolved post-Lyme diagnosis.<\/p>\n