Hailey Bieber Recalls How Suffering Mini-Stroke Impacted Her Mental Health
"It was just a feeling that I was, like, I never want to experience that ever again. It was so terrifying, so jarring, so discombobulating in every single way that you could imagine."https://t.co/nJs4x9IRMw
- TooFab (@TooFab) January 7, 2023
Nearly a year ago Hailey suffered from a mini-stroke, known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA). While appearing on Thursday's episode of the "Run-Through with Vogue" podcast, she shares that she has experienced anxiety as well as PTSD after she was hospitalized following the mini-stroke.
"It was very difficult," Bieber said. "I struggled with a lot of anxiety after. I struggled with a little bit of PTSD of just, like, the fear of maybe it was gonna happen again. It was just a feeling that I was, like, I never want to experience that ever again. I mean, it was so terrifying, so jarring, so discombobulating in every single way that you could imagine."
While being hospitalized doctors discovered that Hailey had a small hole in her heart known as patent foramen ovale or PFO. She underwent surgery to insert a device to permanently close the hole, with Bieber noting that the device is "in there forever."
"All the doctors kept saying it was just kind of a perfect storm," Bieber continued. "It was a couple different factors that led to you having a small blood clot, and the blood clot traveled through the hole in my heart up to the brain, which is why I had, you know, what they call a mini-stroke."
"It was definitely the scariest thing I've ever gone through," she said. Despite the traumatic incident, Hailey said she's "definitely very open to talking about if it could help anybody else."
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i honestly can't imagine how scary that must've been for her.