Jenni “JWoww” Farley hospitalized on Thursday, September 3, after she said a kidney infection and appendicitis put her in a hospital room instead of the school-day routine with Meilani and Greyson. She posted the update on Instagram with a first-day photo from the hospital, turning a family milestone into a health scare.
“This past week has probably been one of the hardest weeks of my life,” she wrote. Farley said, “I’ve spent every day fighting to get healthy enough to get home to my family while dealing with a horrible kidney infection and appendicitis.”
Hospital room, backpacks, hair supplies
Farley said the morning still happened, just not in the way she planned. “@zackclayton made sure the kids were here extra early this morning so we could all be together,” she wrote, adding that the family ended up with “hospital bracelets, a hospital room, backpacks, hair supplies and a memory I don’t think any of us will ever forget.”
That detail gives the update its weight. She said she did her daughter’s hair for the first day while in the hospital, and that was the moment she wanted to preserve. For a reality TV figure whose public life is usually built around domestic chaos and clean punch lines, this was the opposite: a parent trying to hold a school morning together from a hospital bed.
Months before last Friday
Farley said the illness did not feel sudden to her body, even if it hit hard last Friday. “I want to say it came out of nowhere, but the truth is, I haven’t felt like myself for months,” she wrote, describing “weight loss, exhaustion, constantly feeling off … and then last Friday, my body finally said, ‘We aren’t making it like this anymore.’”
She also said, “I cannot say enough about the incredible hospital team taking care of me and doing everything they could to get me healthy enough to have this moment with my kids.” The setup matters because the school-year photo was not a vanity post; it was proof that the day still counted even after the schedule broke down.
What Farley asked next
Farley ended with a shift from her own room to other families heading into the school year. “So as our kids go back to school, please remind them to be kind,” she wrote, adding, “You never know what someone is carrying behind closed doors.”
Her own line says enough: “What I am going through is temporary.” For now, the only real next step is the one she named herself — getting healthy enough to get home to her family, with the school picture already serving as the day’s record of what she fought through.
