Yolanda Hadid Reflects on Lyme Disease Relapse and Loss of Her Mother in 1st Post After 9-Month Instagram Hiatus
usmagazine.comA difficult time. Yolanda Hadid revealed that she experienced a Lyme disease relapse in the wake of her mother’s death in her first post after a nine-month social media hiatus.“After the loss of my mother I really struggled with depression followed by a lyme relapse … the emotional stress and grief strongly effected [sic] my immune system,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 58, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 31, while reflecting on the “social media detox” that she recently completed. “My phone addiction didn’t help either, it started to take so much time away from being present in my life.
It’s so easy to get lost in other people’s stories while forgetting to live and love your own.”Adding that she felt social media and texting have made it harder for people to connect with one another, Hadid continued, “I realized that we are slowly starting to lose the art of communication and it’s creating a deep loneliness within us.” Instead of spending “many hours of scrolling through social media until your eyes hurt,” the former model decided to take a break from social media in order to “focus on myself, my health journey and being present in this moment of my life.”She continued: “Time has slowed down and feels a lot calmer, more time to just sit and actually read a book, time to reconnect with people, be creative and most importantly time with my family.”In response to her post, her daughter, Bella Hadid — who has also been diagnosed with Lyme disease — shared a message of support for her mother and her journey. “We love you ❤️,” the supermodel, 25, wrote in the comments of her post.Yolanda revealed in August 2019 that her mother, Ans van den Herik, had died at the age of 78 after multiple battles with cancer.
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