In a TikTok video from April 2023, Bella Hadid shared with followers that she had a “low-grade infection” underneath one of her teeth. The infection spread downward, causing the infection in her whole jaw. “This made my Lyme flare up, which means the Lyme is attacking the places that are suffering, i.e. tooth, jaw, guy, brain, spine, bones, etc. Oh, and the entire nervous system,” she revealed in the caption. Hadid revealed that she had an appointment to get the tooth extracted.
The model also revealed that “any minor trauma” she might “physically or mentally” face could cause her Lyme disease to “flare up.” Hadid has had this issue for months and she was given pain medication and antibiotics to help with her jaw in March 2023. She has found that the disease would also flare up when she was “overly stressed or overworking” as well. Hadid also shared that, at the time, she looked “sick as a dog.”
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As the middle Hadid child wrote to users in her comments, Lyme disease has made her “sick since [her] teens” and she experienced anxiety about missing out on events or experiences because she was just always so “sick and depressed” all the time.
