{"id":318753,"date":"2026-03-03T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318753\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:22:08","slug":"desperate-actor-model-from-famous-family-says-she-could-be-gone-in-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318753\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Actor-Model From Famous Family Says She Could &#8216;Be Gone In A Few Days&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/bijou-phillips\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Bijou Phillips\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a5cc5ae4b033a04535ecb8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/bijou-phillips\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bijou Phillips<\/a> revealed she\u2019s in dire need of a kidney transplant \u2015 and is \u201changing on by a thread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could make it on dialysis for a couple years, or I could get an infection in my line tomorrow and be gone in a few days,\u201d Phillips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bijou-phillips-is-fighting-for-her-life-for-her-daughter-amid-medical-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"told Us Weekly in Friday\u2019s edition\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a5cc5ae4b033a04535ecb8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bijou-phillips-is-fighting-for-her-life-for-her-daughter-amid-medical-crisis\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Us Weekly in Friday\u2019s edition<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m really hopeful, [but] it\u2019s an extremely urgent situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, who appeared in \u201cAlmost Famous\u201d and as a recurring character in the TV series \u201cRaising Hope,\u201d said she\u2019s needed a transplant for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old is the daughter of the late Mamas and Papas leader John Phillips and the sister of \u201cOne Day at a Time\u201d alum Mackenzie Phillips and singer Chynna Phillips of the group Wilson Phillips. She was born with underdeveloped kidneys and received her first transplant about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUoL-ujgUfd\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"a Feb. 11 Instagram post\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a5cc5ae4b033a04535ecb8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUoL-ujgUfd\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a Feb. 11 Instagram post<\/a> she said complications had arisen, including antibody rejection, and she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/bijou-phillips-kidney-donor-transplant_n_698dfe54e4b0d2244f5665fe\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"would need a new kidney\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69a5cc5ae4b033a04535ecb8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"698dfe54e4b0d2244f5665fe\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">would need a new kidney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, who divorced imprisoned rapist Danny Masterson of \u201cThat \u201970s Show,\u201d praised boyfriend Jamie Mazur for helping her in her struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gets me to fight where I wouldn\u2019t probably have fought,\u201d she said to Us Weekly in a video on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips recalled her daughter, Fianna, playing with dolls at age 3 and pretending one of them was going to dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all she\u2019s got,\u201d Phillips told Us Weekly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img portrait\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Bijou Phillips, pictured earlier this year at a movie premiere, needs a kidney transplant about 10 years after receiving her first. \" width=\"720\" height=\"1018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a5d979270000068d472874.jpeg\" \/>Bijou Phillips, pictured earlier this year at a movie premiere, needs a kidney transplant about 10 years after receiving her first. <\/p>\n<p>Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor and model Bijou Phillips revealed she\u2019s in dire need of a kidney transplant \u2015 and is \u201changing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[158761,458,146,85,46,66387],"class_list":["post-318753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bijou-phillips","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kidney-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}