Nearly one week after opening up about her struggles with Lyme disease, Bella Hadid is sharing a major update on her health. Yolanda Hadid’s youngest daughter has been open about her health journey, and is now revealing some good news related to it.
The model took to her Instagram Story on Sept. 24, where she posted a photo in a gym, walking on a treadmill, while wearing a black workout set and red jacket. Bella looked happy as she posed solo in the mirror, surrounded by workout equipment and her water bottle. “First day in the gym in a long time!” she wrote over the photo.
“Just walking but still! Getting my stamina back,” she added, along with the words “chronic illnesses’ UNITE” and “if you know you know.”
Yolanda reposted the photo to her own Instagram Story, where she also shared her commentary. “Gooooo Bella…..one day at a time,” The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum wrote, along with a bicep emoji and the words “I love you.”
Bella Hadid opens up about her health struggles with Lyme disease
Bella took to Instagram on Sept. 17, where she posted a series of photos of her lying down in a hospital bed, hooked up to a number of tubes and oxygen. “I’m sorry I always go MIA, I love you guys,” she wrote in the caption of the post.
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Over the past few years, Bella has not been shy when it comes to opening up about her struggles with Lyme. “I think nobody really understands chronic illness. Everything feels…It’s hard to take a shower most days, which I promise guys, if you’re reading this, I shower everyday,” she told British Vogue in June 2025. “But sometimes, if I have one day off, if I can get in the shower and make myself breakfast, I see that as an accomplishment.”
Yolanda Hadid pens tribute to Bella Hadid amid her health journey
Shortly after Bella posted her photos to social media last week, Yolanda took to her own Instagram account, where she posted a series of photos of Bella, taken at the doctor’s office, and shed more light on her recent struggles. “As you will understand, watching my Bella struggle in silence has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside of me,” she wrote in the caption of the post. “The invisible disability of chronic neurological Lyme disease is hard to explain or understand for anyone.”
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“You are relentless and courageous,” she added. “No child is supposed to suffer in their body with an incurable chronic disease. I admire your bravery and your willingness to keep fighting for health despite failing protocols and countless setbacks you have faced. There simply aren’t words big enough for the darkness, the pain, and the unknown hell you’ve lived through since your diagnosis in 2013. You didn’t really live, you learned how to exist inside the jail of your own paralyzed brain.”
See what Bella had to say about her own bond with Yolanda in January.
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