Bella Hadid Showed What The Tough Fight With Lyme Disease Looks Like

Bella Hadid (26) has been fighting Lyme disease for years, and on Sunday she published more photos showing how she looks in recent months while fighting for her own health and published a longer text in which she talked about all the challenges she is facing.

Bella Hadid Showed What The Tough Fight With Lyme Disease Looks Like

In July of this year, the model announced that she would take days off because her illness worsened, and in the last 4 months, as she said, she received new treatments every day.

“The younger version of me would be proud of the older version of me because I don’t give up on myself.

I’m grateful to my mom for keeping all my medical records and always being there for me, protecting me and supporting me, but most of all, believing in me as I go through this.”, she wrote.

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Bella says that living with the disease while trying hard to work and make the people around her proud, as well as herself, has taken a toll.

“I’m fine and I don’t want you to worry and I wouldn’t change anything in my life.

If I had to go through all this again to get here, I wouldn’t change a thing at this point. All this made me who I am.”, writes Bella.

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She emphasizes that the 15 years of invisible suffering are worth it because she had the opportunity to share love from her whole heart and be herself.

Finally, she told her fans that she will be back when she is ready.

By the way, Bella was diagnosed with Lyme disease at the age of 16. Apart from Bella, her mother Yolanda also struggles with the same disease, and in 2013, her younger brother Anwar was also diagnosed.