revealed details about her struggles with Lyme disease amid her five-month
The 26-year-old model contracted the illness in 2012 and admitted she was dealing with a recent health scare after an emergency root canal surgery caused her to have a low-grade infection.
Sharing skin selfies that documented a breakout, the star explained that the antibiotics and Motrin 800 for her jaw infection caused her to start ‘breaking out randomly, I get what feels like lesions’.
She opened up about her condition and said: ‘I look sick as a dog compared to what I look like now.
‘Basically, the nerve pain from my jaw ended up going down my entire meridian of my body, and to the touch, everywhere all the way down my body through all my lymph nodes.
‘This pain, man. Something real different. Real different.
‘You can only wonder why my face changes the way it doesn’t and this is why. End of story.
‘That’s why I hate looking in the mirror or taking pictures especially lately, truly wanting to throw up at the sight of myself constantly.
‘Years and years of this. If I’m all dolled up maybe I’ll try for the girls, but man is it hard to do this as your profession while also feeling/looking sick like this.
‘And if you look back at work pictures from the past eight years you can tell the difference between me when my Lyme flares up and me when I’m healthy.
‘She’s a different girl. I feel so bad for her my little body [sic]’.
Bella went on and continued divulging information about how her body changes due to her disease.
She admitted: ‘This is me on a decent day by the way.
‘I would never be able to make one of these videos if I was at work having a flare up, or not feeling safe/calm in my environment as I am with my mom and horses the past four weeks.
‘I tried my best so I could try to update you guys before the extraction.
‘Thank you for watching this and knowing a little more about me that is a huge part of my everyday life. It means more to me than you even know and I feel closer to you guys now. Love you all a lot a lot a lot. My angels [sic]’.
The sister of supermodel Gigi Hadid was officially diagnosed with Lyme disease at the age of 16.
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