{"id":29420,"date":"2025-09-18T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29420\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:22:06","slug":"bella-hadid-hospitalised-but-not-giving-up-in-lyme-disease-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29420\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Hadid hospitalised but \u2018not giving up\u2019 in Lyme disease fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">As well as her hospital photos, Bella Hadid shared a selection of other pictures, including one of a sky with a double rainbow and a pastoral landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Recently, she opened up about her struggles with Lyme disease and said she struggles to take showers because she is often in \u201cexcruciating pain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking with Vogue, she said: \u201cI think nobody really understands chronic illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to take a shower most days, which I promise guys, if you\u2019re reading this, I shower every day. But sometimes, if I have one day off, if I can get in the shower and make myself breakfast, I see that as an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur interview today was at 3pm. I was in excruciating pain until 11am and had a very tough morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Hadid previously insisted she was \u201cnot giving up\u201d in her battle with Lyme disease.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Bella Hadid, 28, was diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was 16. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Bella Hadid, 28, was diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was 16. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">She wrote on Instagram: \u201cThe little me that suffered would be so proud of grown me for not giving up on myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThankful to my 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLiving in this state, worsening with time and work while trying to make myself, my family and the people who support me, proud, had taken a toll on me in ways I can\u2019t really explain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTo be that sad and sick with the most blessings\/privilege\/opportunity\/love around me was quite possibly the most confusing thing ever. One thing I want to express to you all is that 1: I am okay and you do not have to worry, and 2: I wouldn\u2019t change anything for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">She added: \u201cThe universe works in the most painful and beautiful ways but I need to say that if you are struggling \u2013 it will get better. I promise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as her hospital photos, Bella Hadid shared a selection of other pictures, including one of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1558,28748,3013,7191,156,15124,13800,28749,28750,78,28751,111,139,5006,69,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-29420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-been","9":"tag-bella","10":"tag-but","11":"tag-disease","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fight","14":"tag-giving","15":"tag-hadid","16":"tag-hospitalised","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-lyme","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-not","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}