Robert De Niro's Girlfriend Tiffany Chen Says She Developed Bell's Palsy After Giving Birth to His 7th Child
Robert De Niro's girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, is opening up about a scary postpartum complication she endured after giving birth to the 79-year-old Oscar-winning actor's seventh child. On Thursday, shared a preview clip of Chen's interview with Gayle King, where the 45-year-old reveals that she developed Bell's palsy, a medical condition that causes facial paralysis, after welcoming her and De Niro's daughter, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, in April. «When I went home, I started to feel like my tongue felt strange. It felt a little tingly, just starting to get a little bit numb, and then I realized my face just felt weird,» Chen tells King. «I didn't know what the feeling I was having, it just felt weird.»She adds that she could see a difference in her face at the time, saying, «Everything was starting to fall down on itself, like, my face was melting on itself.