Bella Hadid said on June 25 that a severe Lyme disease flare-up had left her unable to shake off symptoms and struggling through ordinary tasks. She described the episode as one that brought “severe isolation and depression,” then posted again early Friday morning to calm concerns.
Bella Hadid on June 25
Hadid said she had slept for 11 hours, napped daily, and followed every protocol from every doctor she had seen. She also wrote, “Now I've diagnosed myself with 12 other things so that's good,” a line that reads like gallows humor but lands as frustration after repeated attempts to get relief.
She was direct about how fast the flare-up was shrinking her day. “And today is not the day to tell me to journal. And yes I drank water. And no I didnt go on a walk because I was out of breath walking to the kitchen,” she wrote. That is the kind of detail people with chronic illness recognize immediately: the threshold for effort moves, then keeps moving.
Oliver George Reels
Hadid also shared Reels from comedian Oliver George about living with chronic illness, using someone else’s jokes to frame a situation she was describing in plain terms. The post did not turn the update into a polished health statement; it made the flare-up feel lived-in, with fatigue, breathlessness, and the emotional drag arriving together.
“I don't think there's a singular brain cell in there working and my last two are beefing with each other so I'm sorry if I ever told you on a bad day to journal I take it back and I'm sorry,” she wrote, then added, “I took a shower without fainting tho … so again, if you know you know …. that felt like a really big accomplishment for me today so maybe someone can send me a cookie or something.” For readers tracking her condition, that is the clearest operational takeaway from the day: the flare-up was active enough that a shower counted as progress, and the early Friday post was about easing concern rather than announcing a reset.
