“I didn’t want to go through that again. It was terrifying, jarring and disturbing in every way imaginable.”
Nearly a year after suffering a minor stroke, Hailey Bieber has opened up about how it has affected her mental health.
While appearing on Thursday’s episode of the podcast “Run-Through with Vogue,” the model suffered from anxiety and PTSD after being hospitalized last March after a small stroke known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA). I shared my experience with
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“It was very difficult,” said the 26-year-old Bieber. “After that, I suffered a lot of anxiety. I suffered a little bit of PTSD of the fear that maybe it would happen again. It was jarring and confusing.”
While hospitalized for a medical emergency, doctors discovered the Lordskin founder had a small hole in her heart known as a patent foramen ovale or PFO. He underwent surgery to insert a occluding device, which Bieber said was “always there”.
Reflecting on her health scare, she said: .”
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“All the doctors kept saying it was kind of the perfect storm,” Bieber continued. It traveled through and into the brain, so there was something called a mini-stroke.”
“It was definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever been through,” she said.
Bieber revealed that the podcast interview was taped in Palm Springs.
“Even the first few times I came back here after that, it was a bit of a strange triggering feeling for me because I remember exactly how everything happened in that moment. I just noticed that there is a hole in it.”
Despite the traumatic incident, Bieber is “definitely very open to talking about whether it can help someone else.”
“In retrospect, it could have been worse,” she later added. “A lot of worse things could have happened in that moment. I’m grateful I’m okay. It’s kind of where I have to stay mentally.”
