Hailey Bieber Marks 1 Year Since Suffering Mini-Stroke: It Was ‘Such a Life-Changing Event’

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A “life-changing event.” Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) marked the one-year anniversary of suffering a blood clot in her brain.“Can’t believe it’s been 1 year since I suffered a mini-stroke that led my PFO diagnosis,” the model, 26, wrote via Instagram Story on Friday, March 10, reposting her initial social media video about the health scare. “Given that it’s the 1 year mark from such a life-changing event, I wanted to share all the information I’ve learned about PFO and share resources to donate.”Bieber then uploaded several panels of informational graphics from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA’s medical school about Patent Foramen Ovales (PFO), which is a congenital heart defect.The Rhode founder first revealed her condition in March 2022, noting that she had been hospitalized after a medical emergency.“On Thursday morning, I was sitting at breakfast with my husband [Justin Bieber] when I started having stroke-like symptoms and was taken to the hospital,” Hailey wrote via her Instagram Story at the time. “They found I had suffered a very small blood clot in my brain, which caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed on its own and I recovered completely within a few hours.”She continued: “Although this was definitely one of the scariest moments I’ve ever been through, I’m home now and doing well, and I’m so grateful and thankful to all the amazing doctors and nurses who took care of me!”Stephen Baldwin’s daughter later opened up about her experience in a YouTube video one month later, noting she initially felt a “weird sensation” in her arm.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“It made my fingertips feel really numb and weird,” she recalled in the April 2022 video, explaining the