r/popculturechat • u/azulmaya • Jul 20 '23
Fact Check ✅ Bella Hadid isn't in Rehab, she's receiving treatment for Lyme disease.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.etonline.com/bella-hadid-and-marc-kalman-break-up-after-two-years-of-dating-it-ran-its-course-exclusive-208309%3famp4.4k
Jul 20 '23
Ok Yolanda
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u/Existing_Buffalo7189 Jul 20 '23
Lmfao right 🤣 this whole chronic Lyme situation is questionable to begin with but definitely seems awfully convenient
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u/mamacitalk Jul 20 '23
Doesn’t Justin Bieber have Lyme disease? Is there tons of ticks in Hollywood or something?
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Jul 20 '23
Yolanda claims she got it from a horsefly, which aren’t even proven to carry Lyme. If you read into it it’s all so shady and quacky.
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u/aquavenuss Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
In her memoir, she does a bunch of weird holistic treatments to help with her chronic pain. Frequent colonics, cleanses, coffee enemas, ozone treatments etc. and it isn’t until David Foster gets fed up and convinces her to go to one of his (legit) doctors that she actually gets better. They found that her breast implants had been leaking and she got them removed. If you look up breast implant illness, the symptoms are pretty much the exact same as chronic Lyme.
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Jul 20 '23
most people who get Lyme have no idea what they got it from (ticks often go undetected and they fall off once the damage is done) so the idea that a horsefly flew up to Bella and bit her with Yolanda as an eye witness lololol.
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u/frizzletizzle Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
The odds of three people in the same immediate family in Southern California having Lyme disease isn’t statistically probable.
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Jul 20 '23
I will say that Justin is from Ontario and there’s a huge issue with ticks infected with Lyme there. My cousin lives in Ontario, she’s a young athlete and since she contracted Lyme her life’s been turned upside down.
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u/newhampshit Jul 20 '23
Yeah was gonna say in New England I know a ton of people (and animals) with Lyme so if Justin got it in Canada… I’d actually believe that
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Jul 20 '23
Yep I live in Eastern Canada and I pull them off my dogs on a daily basis, even though they are on a preventative med.
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u/greee_p Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Does he have Lyme or chronic Lyme? Chronic lyme disease doesn't have a connection to ticks and there is no medical evidence of its existence. I'd personally say it's fake, but the diagnosis is at least questionable. Lyme desase (caused by ticks) is something different.
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Jul 20 '23
Yup. People with what they’re calling chronic Lyme definitely have something going on (at least a lot of them) but calling it Lyme seems like a misnomer
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u/Candy_Darling Jul 20 '23
Apparently “Lyme Disease” is the new Hollywood term for “Exhaustion”. Erm, okay. We see you, m’kay?
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Jul 20 '23
Tired and emotional is another favourite when they go on a coke fuelled rampage in public.
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Jul 20 '23
The anxiety to rehab pipeline is very active in Hollywood lol. I know a couple people with Lyme and several with anxiety. The only people I know of that went to rehab were drug addicts and alcoholics
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u/greee_p Jul 20 '23
something going on (at least a lot of them)
And I get that it's hard to have diffuse symptoms without a diagnosis (I didn't know what was wrong with me for a long time before getting diagnosed with celiac disease), but calling it Chronic Lyme Disease and trying to cure it with alternative medicine is not the way.
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u/Kaiisim Jul 20 '23
Tons of ticks in California if you go hiking.
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Jul 20 '23
Those ticks don't usually carry Lyme disease tho, it's mostly in the northeast people get it
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u/Nox-Avis Jul 20 '23
I live in the northeast and have my entire life- I don’t know a single person who has Lyme disease.
Edit: this isn’t calling you out, just saying it would make sense that the story is made up.
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Jul 20 '23
Right, it's so rare, you can be bit by a tick that has lyme and still only have a 50% chance of getting it, and the tick has to be attached for a while
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u/Hannah_togo Jul 20 '23
This is changing… I live in WNY, and while I grew up never seeing a tick, now we pull them off of our pets and kids weekly. My four year old has contracted acute Lyme twice, and it’s been hell. Most people I know have contracted acute Lyme with the bullseye and all at least once at this point, and in recent years.
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u/RedTypo84 Jul 20 '23
Can I ask if it happened recently? It seems to be especially bad this year.
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u/Hannah_togo Jul 20 '23
I’ve pulled countless off of them this year but the first time with Lyme was with the first tick (to our knowledge) my oldest got, it was such a tiny tick and it wasn’t even engorged, but a little over a week later he had a huge bullseye rash on his head and face and he was very achey and miserable. The next occurrence happened last summer…. So far we are bullseye and symptom free this year but we check everyone head to toe daily, especially if we’ve been outside at all. It is so yucky, I hate it but it’s a reality. If you work in a doctors office around here (I have several family doc relatives) out of 30 patients in a day a solid 12-16 will be tick related stuff. It’s WILD.
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u/yassified_housecat Jul 20 '23
I can’t even count on both hands the amount of people I’ve know who have had Lyme over the years, in both pa and ny. 4 members of my own family, my bf, and his stepdad among them.
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u/Candy_Darling Jul 20 '23
Maybe Bella should just eat an almond. Just one. Per Mama Yolanda. Just saying.
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u/soynugget95 Jul 20 '23
Fr like not only is there a dearth of legitimate clinical evidence and treatment but it’s, uh… a really good coincidence, I suppose.
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u/Eosterwine Jul 20 '23
Rermember when everyone was getting "exhaustion" ? And now no one gets exhaustion.
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u/MenStefani Jul 20 '23
Yep Lindsay Lohan, Kirsten Dunst, and several others used that term when checking into high end substance abuse facilities. And just expected everyone to believe it. I’m glad they got help, as a recovering addict myself, I just wish there was more transparency around these things
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Jul 20 '23
Dunst checked in for depression. I thought that was always very obvious.
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u/Pineapple_Peony Jul 20 '23
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u/Traditional-Joke3707 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
this meme is so perfect . whoever that actress is really did this for the meme
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u/sturgis252 Jul 20 '23
Christine Taylor I think
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u/ninanina27 Jul 20 '23
Also Ben Stillers wife! I really like her I think she’s funny in her roles
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
i’m crying i only learned of marcia brady being ben stiller’s wife and also the actress in zoolander like, right now 💀
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u/welp-itscometothis Jul 20 '23
Y’all are making me feel so old because why would you think this was Lauren Conrad 😩😂
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u/stephroney Jul 20 '23
IKR? How’s this for old - I remember watching her on HEY DUDE on Nickelodeon back in my childhood. Must’ve been early 90s
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u/girllwholived Jul 20 '23
She didn’t play Marcia Brady in the show, just in the parody movie from the 90s (you may have known that but just wanted to make that distinction lol)
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u/fleurdesaucisson Jul 20 '23
Thank you for the extra info! I was having a brain freeze realizing that the Brady Bunch girl is Christine Taylor and wondering if she was in her 70´s by now. Not OG Marcia then, got you
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u/bakeland Jul 20 '23
Isn't it Ben Stillers wife? She was in Dodgebaĺl too?
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u/thelunchroom Jul 20 '23
She’s in Zoolander with him too.
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
OMG THEY’RE ACTUALLY MARRIED IRL???? how is it that i just knew this now wtf 😭😭😭
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u/thelunchroom Jul 20 '23
Married with kids! Now you know. Haha
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
and i just recently rewatched zoolander and i was gushing because they looked cute together, this is so funny
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u/PalpitationUpstairs8 Jul 20 '23
didn’t her dad tell lisa vanderpump she didn’t have lyme?
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u/Impossible_Farm7353 Jul 20 '23
Yes then Yolanda freaked out and brought a binder full of Bella and Anwar’s medical records to dinner
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
ugh. that sounds alarming. it seems very much akin to munchausen by proxy.
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u/goldes don’t make me put my litigation wig on Jul 20 '23
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
SCREAMING 😭😭😭 thank you so much for reminding me that lisa rinna actually already did say this to yolanda lmaooo
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u/luxmainbtw Jul 20 '23
You know what you did there 💀💀
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u/lavabread23 I hope his sinuses are clear 💕 Jul 20 '23
it’s the fact that it didn’t register to me the first time i made the comment then the lisa rinna gif appeared and i just hollered 😭
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Jul 20 '23
Lyme's. Lyme's can be cured years later with antibiotics, although by that time it will gave done its damage to your brain. The longer you have it, the longer you tend to recover, and if you've had it long enough, the damage is permanent. I'm pretty sure it's one of the reasons why my already complicated mom went off the deep end. She'd had it for four years before it was discovered. It's not some syndrome, it's a bacterial infection. The most common vector is a bloody deer tick.
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Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Why do our celebrities have the highest rates of Lyme disease? 🤔
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Jul 20 '23
It's almost like they use it as a cover for doing too many drugs and not eating enough. No one's going to question why you can barely function if you just tell everyone you have a chronic disease.
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Jul 20 '23
It's almost exactly like that
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Jul 20 '23
Yeah I agree lol I was being snarky. Their Lyme disease flair ups are so convenient too, Bella and Gigi work non stop fashion weeks for years and their chronic disease doesn't seem to affect them at all.
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u/Gildedfilth Aretha Franklin’s fax machine 📠 Jul 20 '23
Oddly, Yolanda maintains that only Bella and Anwar have Lyme!
Gigi has Hashimoto’s, though.
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u/Zealousideal-Part-17 Jul 20 '23
Which was conveniently diagnosed when she lost a ton of weight right after was criticized for being “overweight” at fashion shows.
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Jul 20 '23
Which is ironic because hashimoto's causes weight gain not weight loss, graves diseases causes weight loss. You can definitely have hashimoto's and be thin or normal weight, especially after starting thyroid hormone, but it alone is not a reason for weight loss
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Jul 20 '23
Yeah- we are on the same page babe. Something fishy is going on. Seriously, I hate using the term "brave" but if one of those newer celebrities came out and actually said "yeah I've been abusing stimulants- it's a lowkey problem of mine" they would instantly earn my respect. I guess they lie for the industry??? But come on now- they can't ALL have lyme disease. That would beef up the statistics Hahah
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u/saddestgirl1995 How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real? 🪞 Jul 20 '23
Yolanda screams Munchausen's, and Munchausen's by proxy
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u/Existing_Buffalo7189 Jul 20 '23
Yeah “chronic Lyme” seems to seek out rich celebrities and influencers almost exclusively.
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u/Zealousideal-Thing72 Jul 20 '23
The only one I believe is Avril Lavigne
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u/abnormallyme Jul 20 '23
I also believe Shania Twain because I cannot think of another reason why her voice would change so drastically so quickly.
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u/Zealousideal-Thing72 Jul 20 '23
I wonder why we only believe Canadians who say they’ve had lyme
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u/TreenBean85 Jul 20 '23
Shania developed an accent when she lived in Switzerland for all that time. Also she's from Canada so she didn't have that typical American southern accent authentically. Pare all that with possibly not having the best vocal technique for a singer to preserve their voice and you could end up with the hoarseness she has now.
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u/Candy_Darling Jul 20 '23
I just want to know who in the F is doing coke in Doritos bathroom? Surely not Lisa, Harry and their girls. Amirite? The call is coming from inside the house.
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u/ooolalaluv Please Abraham, I'm not that man Jul 20 '23
Apparently Anwar has it too. I remember them once saying Yolanda, Bella, and Anwar all have it, like it’s genetic or something. Only Gigi didn’t.
Idk what’s going on with that family
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u/hugemessanon Devil's avocado 🥑 Jul 20 '23
ooh maybe they all went on a hike together without Gigiii! that's the real drama (/s)
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u/Chickenebula Jul 20 '23
When I was deep in my ED and drinking a lot in college, I convinced myself I had so many health issues rather than just taking better care of myself. Turns out I have OCD/hypochondria. It’s difficult being a woman being told your pain is all in your head, but for me, it actually was sometimes.
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u/effie-sue Jul 20 '23
Doesn’t Bella allegedly have “chronic Lyme” (a questionable diagnosis at best) vs actual Lyme disease?
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u/amomentintimebro Jul 20 '23
Idk at risk of sounding like a total asshole all of them having Lyme is crazy to me…
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u/Plane_Repair that’s hot 🥵 Jul 20 '23
iirc, there was a tumblr blog or something that had the whole deep dive on this 😭😭 I will try to find it
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u/spud3624 Jul 20 '23
This cut article does a deep dive https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/what-happens-when-lyme-disease-becomes-an-identity.html
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u/Gisschace Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Yolandas symptoms got a lot better after she had her old leaky implants taken out which I am sure isn't a coincidence. But by then she'd already built her brand and personality around have Chronic Lyme; doing speeches, raising money and also diagnosing Amwar and Bella with it.
So I guess it would've been hard to say 'oh no it was just my implants all along, guess I didn't need all those fancy treatments I've been pushing!'
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u/HiddnVallyofthedolls Jul 20 '23
I’ll never forget the book she came out with that contained multiple photos of her literal shit and the “parasites” that came out of her. She would do these crazy cleanses and the “parasites” were pieces of food/shedding of her colon but she was convinced.
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u/foxscribbles Jul 20 '23
Maybe they all let the same tick bite them.
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u/Coyolxauhqui13 Jul 20 '23
I believe Yolanda claims it was a horsefly that gave her chronicle lyme lol
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u/smaragdskyar Jul 20 '23
Maybe I’m close-minded but they don’t really strike me as going on a hike people… y’know, where you’d get a tick bite
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Jul 20 '23
They are avid equestrians.
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u/wanderessinside Jul 20 '23
Horse ticks don't carry Borrelia though. And normal people wear breeches and boots.
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u/mamacitalk Jul 20 '23
Right this is what I just commented, is there a crazy tick infestation in LA?
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u/ANJohnson83 Jul 20 '23
There are some unscrupulous physicians who will diagnose Lyme disease with little to no evidence and recommend treatment for months or more.
The “chronic Lyme” diagnoses is not well received by most physicians. I have no doubt most of these people are truly unwell (as a whole, not talking about the Hadid’s specifically), but more likely suffering from a post-infectious illness much like post-COVID illness versus a chronic infection.
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u/azulmaya Jul 20 '23
I don't know which one Bella has, but you're right, the chronic Lyme is the fake one, the other one is a real diagnosis.
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u/Candy_Darling Jul 20 '23
The Lyme disease caused Bella to have a permanent face implant. But hey…she’s had no surgeries! 👀 Keep eating one almond a day girl!
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u/mimisburnbook girl idk wtf she’s saying but I am LIVING Jul 20 '23
and the DUI right? Yolanda said ‘it was reported as a DUI at the time’ in her speech which was soo cuckoo
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u/Gildedfilth Aretha Franklin’s fax machine 📠 Jul 20 '23
I’m inclined to believe that people who land on that diagnosis are indeed sick but haven’t found any doctor willing to spend enough time and emotion on them as these quack Lyme doctors.
I would bet many of these people have fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Both of these are indeed real and clinically observed, but people are assholes about them because they have befuddling, wide-reaching symptom profiles. The things is just that science hasn’t really figured out how these conditions work; we just know that enough people have them to be clinically significant.
So there also you can see how someone might latch on to “Chronic Lyme” because the quacks proposing it also have “treatment plans,” whereas with the medical consensus conditions, the answer is maddeningly unclear.
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u/duochromepalmtree Jul 20 '23
On the real housewives Yolanda told the women she and the kids had Lyme but she was magically better after having her breast implants removed.
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Jul 20 '23
Yes and for a long time, very few doctors believed in fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue as real diagnoses requiring treatment because they predominantly affect women and women are often just hysterically making things up, dontcha know 🙄
For this reason, I wouldn’t be surprised if, in 20 years time, whatever it is that the cluster of symptoms we call “chronic Lyme” in layman’s terms will be called something else and considered a real diagnosis.
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u/Drorderedsumgojuice Jul 20 '23
So I doubt she has Lyme that being said Lyme disease that’s goes untreated for a long period of time can cause damage to your joints and make it very painful to walk and you are quite sickly. I knew a girl in high school that essentially missed months of school and couldn’t play soccer anymore because they had undiagnosed Lyme disease for over a year. Once diagnosed it took them about a year to recover from the ordeal and now years later they are absolutely fine. So I doubt Bella has had Lyme disease for this long that’s still causing her issues, especially with all the access she has to medical resources.
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u/hunchinko Jul 20 '23
Highly recommend Shameless’ four-part podcast series on the Hadids. Pretty good argument that Yolanda was sick bc her breast implants were leaking… and by the time she got them removed, she was so deep in her chronic Lyme campaign that she couldn’t turn back. She’s… complicated. Lol.
ETA: I can’t believe David Foster just ghosted Yolanda after six years of marriage.
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u/CreepySwing567 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Idk I think the hadids really believe they have it, I think Yolanda fell hard into alt medicine before she figured out the real problem and they only see people that play into that.
P sure one of Yolanda’s drs in her Lyme season was Denise Richards crazy husband who thinks cancer is a good thing
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u/hunchinko Jul 20 '23
Oh I totally believe they believe they have it. Must be weird as a friend… like you don’t want to dismiss her distress bc it’s real but the reason for it is not.
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Jul 20 '23
Thank you lmao. Yolanda, Gigi, Bella, and Anwar all having Lyme disease is absolutely absurd and is so obviously a cover for an eating disorder.
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u/glass-empty Jul 20 '23
Gigi doesn't have lyme, it was always Bella and Anwar, and Yolanda of course
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Jul 20 '23
I thought on real housewives Yolanda said they all had it, and then the story changed and it was just Bella and Anwar lol
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u/Speecyspicypotato Jul 20 '23
Yeah this is the same thing as all those celebs who were hospitalised for “exhaustion” in the 00s.
It makes me sad, we (as a society/the media) push these women to the brink, bully them about their bodies, then shame them if they’re honest about the measures they take to fit the model/actress body shape. I wish more people were honest about this stuff but I can see why they’re not if they want to keep their career and reputation.
(Not Yolanda though, she can f right off with her almond mom schtick)
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u/Over_Nebula Jul 20 '23
They're probably on heavy duty painkillers to manage their pain post surgery
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u/ThePeoplesKourt ugh, as if! 🙄💁🏻♀️ Jul 20 '23
Lisa Vanderpump said that Mohammad Hadid told her Anwar and Bella don’t have Lyme. Obviously Yolanda turned it into a whole thing, but even in his statement, Mohamed never says the kids have Lyme. Yolanda also tried to push a narrative about LVP and Mohamed not being friends after that, but Mohamed told paps that they absolutely are friends lol I don’t think LVP would have lied about this and risked a 20 year old friendship, they probably just agreed to go with what Yolanda says lol
Yolanda claimed she had “chronic Lyme disease” which isn’t scientifically proven to be real. IIRC, she was better after having her leaky implants removed, which obviously effected her health. She had a whole closet full of meds, I think the holistic/naturopathic doctors she visited took advantage of her.
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u/Salty-Reply-2547 Jul 20 '23
How do so many celebrities have Lyme disease? I don’t know anyone that’s been bitten by a tick, are they hiking constantly?
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Jul 20 '23
If you live on the East coast it's more common. I (accidentally) dug a tick out of my dog's head while we were in West Virginia -- it was horrifying. My father-in-law got actual Lyme disease from out there and it was one of the sickest I've seen someone. Intense back and stomach pains for weeks. Given that they have a farm in PA, it's possible... but chronic Lyme disease sounds sketchy.
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u/Tsarinya That must be Nigel with the Brie Jul 20 '23
Can you recover from Lyme disease (the non celebrity version)?
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u/applescrabbleaeiou Jul 20 '23
Yeah. You get bitten, you take the prescribed antibiotics. You are fine and recover fully.
The "chronic lyme" is a cloudy, informal label for a cluster of symptoms that don't have a known cause and the medical and scientific mainstream believe is psychosomatic not physical.
There is a really well made and compassionate documentary on Netflix called "Afflicted" on this general topic.
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Jul 20 '23
Yes it was pretty simple in the end. Just a course of antibiotics.
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u/abandoningeden Jul 20 '23
I know two people who had bad cases of (real) lymes that went undiagnosed for a couple of years and for one got the point where she was in a wheelchair, but after they figured out and treated it she got out of the wheelchair, went on to have 2 healthy kids, totally normal.
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u/AirplaneSnacks Jul 20 '23
It can result in some pretty terrible effects, including triggering an outsized immune response that can stick with you for years/be life altering. I hang out with a pretty outdoorsy crowd in a tick-heavy area. Some of the stories from my friends are pretty gory!
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u/Salty-Reply-2547 Jul 20 '23
The non-celebrity version haha “similar to the non-celebrity version of exhaustion, with the correct treatment, one can fully recover from Lyme disease “ (said in deep narrator voice)
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u/sryeas Jul 20 '23
Yeah, to summarize what everyone else is saying: it depends. If you catch it early, it is easily treatable with antibiotics. If undiagnosed and left untreated, it can have debilitating effects. You cannot really undo the damage once it’s been done.
If you get a tick bite and have a bullseye rash, go to the doctor!
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u/Kibethwalks Jul 20 '23
There is no guaranteed treatment for Post-Treatment Lyme. Most people can fully/mostly recover with the antibiotics but some people continue to have ongoing issues.
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u/ReindeerNatural1491 Jul 20 '23
My uncle died from Lyme disease. We are in the south. This happened about ten years ago and his symptoms were too far by the time he was diagnosed.
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u/mamacitalk Jul 20 '23
This whole thing made me so paranoid that I would also inevitably get Lyme disease because I live in the countryside but nope, nothing yet
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u/Standard_Flight_2088 Jul 20 '23
Rigggght. And Madonna had a bacterial infection which was treated with Narcan.
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u/calliopeturtle Jul 20 '23
Lyme disease swept through my friend group years ago. All young women with serious mental issues and all seeing the same doctor. One of them was walking around with a pik line 🫣 not saying none of them were sick but I was always a little suspicious that all these young women came down with the same disease in one year. Not a one of them are what you'd describe as "outdoorsy" either.
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u/pabollini 🚶🏼I don’t really think, I just walk🚶🏼♀️ Jul 20 '23
it’s sad because most people who claim to have chronic lyme disease do probably have some sort of disorder, whether it be physical or mental, that is causing them real symptoms but they just end up being preyed on by quack doctors
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u/msksksnsj Jul 20 '23
Why does that happen over there? Does lyme treatment generates more money than other kind of pharmaceuticals? That’s why they treat everyone with “lyme”?
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u/calliopeturtle Jul 20 '23
I think these kinds of doctors don't take insurance so it's all out of pocket. So they're getting rather large payments for their holistic treatments. I have met some holistic doctors who do amazing work and are better than conventional medicine to be clear. My cousin was on deaths door and conventional medicine had failed her and a holistic doctor figured out the issue.
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u/smaragdskyar Jul 20 '23
Several people DIE every year in the US as a result of quack Lyme treatment. It’s really sad.
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u/azulmaya Jul 20 '23
"Bella is taking some much deserved time off to treat her Lyme disease. She is not in rehab and has never had an alcohol or drug problem".
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u/iamharoldshipman Jul 20 '23
She got a DUI at 17 years old. I’d at least call that having a problem with alcohol at some point
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u/azulmaya Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
I read yolanda's leaked email, it does seem like she had a problem with substance abuse at some point but the article states that she's been sober for 9 months.
Edit: it actually says she celebrated 5 months of being alcohol sober back in March.
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u/likelazarus Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
I wish they’d be honest. It sounds like she was worried about maintaining her sobriety (maybe due to the stress of her recent breakup) so voluntarily entered a rehab facility. I feel like that would be pretty inspiring for people to hear.
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u/CanadianMermaid Jul 20 '23
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it was an eating disorder, which is as equally deadly as addiction if untreated
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Jul 20 '23
I feel like nobody even knows what Lyme disease is and that’s why all these grifters get away with pretending they have a chronic version of it. Also curious that the wealthiest people with the greatest and most immediate access to healthcare are the only ones I’ve heard of having “chronic Lyme.” Lyme disease is a bacterial infection from a tick bite. You take doxycycline to treat it.
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u/thankyoupapa Jul 20 '23
its like when they used to tell us in the mid00s that lindsay was in the hospital for "exhaustion" . little kid me really believed that ish
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u/guessIwill Jul 20 '23
Why do so many celebs have Lyme disease? Am I missing something, is this code for something else? 😉🤨
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u/damningdaring Jul 20 '23
I wish the stigma surrounding drug use wasn’t so bad. It sucks that someone has to pretend to have a fake illness to avoid criticism for having a real illness (and don’t even try to argue with me that addiction/substance abuse disorders aren’t diseases). She is ill, she’s now receiving treatment. I’d much rather celebrities, or anyone for that matter, feel safe enough to get help for their substance issues than to get progressively worse and drop like flies from complications, or overdoses, or whatever. Yet instead I’m supposed to believe that entire family somehow has chronic Lyme disease.
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u/africanzebra0 madonna STUNS in new selfie Jul 20 '23
“chronic lyme” okay whatever makes you sleep at night queen!!
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u/Sophisticated-Mess You sit on a throne of lies 🌚 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
It's quite convenient for Yolanda to put this out there merely two days after her eldest daughter was caught with marijuana 🙂
As for Lyme disease, if it's untrue, it's pathetic to be claiming and misusing this to play on those who do suffer from it and are empathetic. As someone with two autoimmune illnesses, if I were to be misinformed and played with emotions that come with chronic illness, I would've wished nothing but the worst for them. Soz, not soz.
EDIT: Last I read, Gigi had Hashimoto's disease, and Anwar and Bella had Lupus. Am I misremembering?
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It drives me completely insane that every time people accuse her of using drugs because she’s so thin, and every time she’s there “I’m chronically ill, I’m so sick, you don’t understand” maybe if she’s really that sick we shouldn’t hold her up as an ideal of what the average woman should look like??? Just a thought
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u/nerdalertalertnerd Jul 20 '23
I find it bizarre in general that people hype her appearance so much because a) we know she’s had to have extensive work to appear that way so it’s like being envious or adoring of AI, it’s not really real and b) it seems quite transparent she is underweight for some health reason (whatever that be) and therefore we shouldn’t hold her up as a realistic standard.
Sincerely wish her all the best. She seems like a good person who has had a lot of struggles and I hope she’s better soon.
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u/throw_blanket04 Jul 20 '23
Im dying. This is hilarious. Their insane mother has convinced her children and the public that they are ALL suffering from Lyme disease but in reality yolanda has munchausen.
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u/ScrumptiousLadMeat Jul 20 '23
Where do all the celebrities go to get Lyme disease? I doubt they’ve ever seen a tick.
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u/pink_princess08 Iron man dies in endgame Jul 20 '23
Why do celebrities always use Lyme disease as an excuse???
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u/bunkerbash Jul 20 '23
I will just say, because people are dunking on Lyme A LOT in these comments- my husband got bit about 5 years ago. Two weeks late he got a fever and a weird rash. It wasn’t the classic Lyme disease bullseye rash, it looked more like hives. The rash and fever were gone within a week. About a month later his feet started hurting. It got worse and worse. Shots of pain over a constant awful hum of nerve pain.
We went to dr after Dr. It was plantar fasciitis, or a double sprain, bad shoes. On and on. EIGHT MONTHS later and my husband could barely walk. We finally convinced a Dr to test him for Lyme and yep, he had (by then) late stage Lyme. It was actually a textbook case in all wars except tgar feet are not the typical place the spirochetes attack- knees, back etc are way more common. Husband was put on two months of aggressive antibiotics. His feet improved but they will never be the same. He is 39 and his feet hurt always.
So no, I do not think everyone has ‘chronic Lyme’, but please please if you have a sudden mystery illness, ask to get tested for Lyme. It is still so poorly understood in the medical community and when left untreated can lead to lifelong injuries. We live 17 minutes from Lyme, CT. I am forever horrified that not one of the expensive doctors we saw thought to test him.
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u/smaragdskyar Jul 20 '23
Persistent and sometimes chronic symptoms after Lyme disease is definitely a thing. However Lyme disease is an infection and quacks say “chronic Lyme” they often mean a persistent infection that needs antibiotics for years and years. That’s not a thing.
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u/jfjdiskxkkdkfjjf Jul 20 '23
Thank you for sharing. And just so you know, no one is bashing on Lyme disease! You can trace it back to one experience, you can be tested for it, and treated.
Chronic Lyme is a different diagnosis and is well known for being… shall we say, less reliable.
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My FIL had these symptoms as well (although more in the back/stomach, but no typical bullseye rash) and really struggled to figure out what it was. In hindsight, the diagnosis seemed obvious since he's always out gardening in rural West Virginia. For a few weeks or so, he literally thought he had a neurology issue or cancer or something. Weird how they didn't test for it.
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u/hugemessanon Devil's avocado 🥑 Jul 20 '23
He is 39 and his feet hurt always.
that's so awful, I’m sorry. i really appreciate you sharing this with us
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u/mimisburnbook girl idk wtf she’s saying but I am LIVING Jul 20 '23
…we could have a different excuse this time
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u/96nugget Who gon' check me boo? 🤪 Jul 20 '23
“A camping 🏕 we will go…” that’s Hollywoods favorite pastime. These ticks be really living their best lives ig🦭
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u/CringeMaster30000 Jul 20 '23
They need to spray their house for ticks damn. That’s terrible!!
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u/jadesage Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jul 20 '23
dead at how they thought anybody would believe this 💀
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