Tiffany Chen Says She ‘Lost All Facial Function’ Due To Bell’s Palsy After Welcoming Daughter With Robert De Niro

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Tiffany Chen is opening up about her harrowing postpartum experience. In a preview of her upcoming “CBS Mornings” interview with Gayle King, airing Friday, the 45-year-old opens up about the complications she faced after recently welcoming her daughter with Robert De Niro. READ MORE: Robert De Niro Says His 6 Older Children Haven’t Met His Newborn Daughter Yet: ‘They Will’ According to Chen, not long after giving birth to daughter Gia Virginia, she began experiencing the postpartum complications, leading her to be diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. “When I went home, I started to feel like … my tongue felt strange,” she recalls. “It felt a little tingly, just starting to get a little bit numb.

And then I realized my face just felt weird. I didn’t know what the feeling was that I was having. It felt weird.” Asked if she found her face appeared different to her when she looked in the mirror, Chen said, “Yeah.” She explains, “When I got home, it was like everything was starting to just fall down on itself.

Like, my face was melting on itself. And then a week after giving birth, that was when it all hit. And I called my doctor, and I … was trying to eat.” READ MORE: Robert De Niro And Tiffany Chen Arrive Hand-In-Hand At The Tribeca Film Festival After Welcoming Baby Chen adds, “I went to put a fork of food in my mouth and everything came out.

I couldn’t eat. And then I was starting to slur. So I said, ‘There’s something really going on here.’ “ She was then immediately told to go to the hospital. “And I lost all facial function the minute I got into the hospital,” Chen says.