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Daily Mail
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bristol Palin gives update on her facial paralysis after turning to extreme treatment and sobriety
Bristol Palin spoke about her ongoing bout with facial paralysis in series of posts Thursday on her Instagram Stories. The Wasilla, Alaska-born reality star, 34, fielded questions from her 549,000 followers on the number of different topics, including her personal health battle. The Teen Mom OG star, who has sporadically updated her fans on her condition via social media, was asked by one follower what symptoms she dealt with prior to physical changes in her face. The daughter of former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made clear the condition literally crept up on her, with no warning signs whatsoever. 'I woke up and it was paralyzed completely out of the blue – no warning, wasn't sick didn't get the v@x, no recent Botox... just paralyzed,' she said. Bristol has past told her followers that different strategies she has taken in her health battle - including a year without alcohol; and nerve block treatments. Bristol estimated her face was 'probably like 70% back to normal' about six months after the situation began. She posed with daughters Sailor Grace, nine, and Atlee Bay, eight Another user asked Bristol how she was handling the situation on an emotional level. Bristol responded, 'I feel like I'm handling it well. I can't look at pictures of myself right now.' Bristol estimated her face was 'probably like 70% back to normal' about six months after the situation began. Another user asked Bristol why she wasn't spending that much time on Instagram these days. 'Maybe it's just me - but IG feels self absorbed the older I get,' Bristol explained. 'I LOVE connecting with y'all and having friends on here but I don't love posting a whole lot.' Bristol said she would try to share more of her professional endeavors with her followers if there was an opportunity to do so. 'Maybe when I have more house projects and I'm playing bob the builder – I want to show you guys but right now I enjoy an offline quiet little life,' she said. Bristol accompanied the posts by images of her with her children; a smiling selfie; and a shot of her hand, as her nails were painted fluorescent yellow. Asked if her son Tripp, 16, wants to go to college, she replied, 'I'd never push college. 'He wants to work – he already works actually,' Bristol said. 'He'll go into a trade and will have his hand in some sort of real estate/development I'm sure! Bristol in January said that her doctor believes she has a case of Bell's palsy — which is temporary paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles — as the tests she's undergone have turned up 'nothing.' Bristol admitted five months back that she has seen very little improvement in her condition as the health crisis eclipsed the three-week mark. 'We're on 23 of this, which is absolutely insane,' she said in February 'Can't move the left side of my face at all. It's really hard to blink. I can't blow out a candle. My sisters makes so much fun of me because I look crazy.' Bristol told more 552,000 followers on the platform the adjustments she's made to her health regimen amid the battle with facial paralysis. Bristol said in the Instagram Stories clip said that she has undergone treatments spanning acupuncture, massage, oxygen chamber treatment and red light therapy, as well as cutting out 'most of the processed foods' in her diet. Bristol said she was 'eliminating most caffeine' in her daily regimen.. 'I still have a cup of coffee in the morning, but trying to clean up everything - to be very healthy - but since this was onset by stress, since it was set off by stress, I've been trying to eliminate anything that I can control that serves no purpose,' she told her followers. Bristol said she was focusing her efforts on eliminating the stress from her day-to-day routine in an effort to 'lighter and feel better' and not cause the 'physical reaction' she's had. 'I'm sleeping pretty sound sticking to a routine - just trying my best to get this healed,' Bristol said. Bristol said that it made her uncomfortable to discuss the topic publicly, but felt that she should inform the public what she was dealing with, lest leave them wondering for the worse. 'I hate talking about the stuff on here,' Bristol said. 'The only reason why I wanted to post about it was that so when people saw me in person they didn't think that something crazy had happened so I could control at least that narrative - but everything is fine. Bristol wrapped up the clip in saying she was 'praying for some breakthrough some healing soon.' Bristol is mother to three children: son Tripp, 16, with ex Levi Johnston, 35; and daughters Sailor Grace, nine, and Atlee Bay, eight, and ex-husband Dakota Meyer, 37. Bristol in January said on the social media platform that doctors speculated she might have Bell's palsy after undergoing a series of tests after suffering symptoms. 'I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face - my mouth was pulling [to the left], and it just felt a little off. Within a couple of hours, the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed.' She said she couldn't blink her eye and 'definitely had no movement on the side of [her] face.' A number of notable names have past received diagnoses of Bell's palsy, including George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, The Bachelorette alum Emily Maynard Johnson and iconic pro wrestling announcer Jim Ross. Bristol was thrust into the national limelight in 2008 amid her mother's vice presidential campaign alongside then Republican presidential candidate, late Arizona Sen. John McCain. She appeared at the Republican National Convention in September 2008 alongside Johnston, as her pregnancy with Tripp when she was 17 made headlines, amid her mother's swift rise to political prominence as McCain's running mate. Beyond the campaign, her relationship with Johnston remained in the public eye amid a pair of engagements before they eventually split for good. Bristol made headlines in 2009 when she signed on for a $262,500 position to serve as an abstinence ambassador for a teen pregnancy prevention organization called The Candie's Foundation. 'Abstinence is the only way you can effectively 100 percent prevent pregnancy,' Bristol said in a 2009 Good Morning America appearance. 'It's the safest choice and it will prevent teen pregnancy and a lot of heartache.' Bristol in March of 2015 revealed she was engaged to Dakota Meyer, a Medal of Honor winner as a Marine. After calling off their engagement, they wed in 2016, prior to Meyer filing for divorce in 2018. In her 2011 book Not Afraid of My Life, Bristol dubbed Levi a 'gnat' who had 'stolen her virginity' after she had been consuming alcohol. Appearing on Good Morning America in June of 2011, Bristol clarified she was 'not accusing Levi of date rape or rape at all. 'I'm looking back with adult eyes and thinking, that was a foolish decision,' she said. 'I should never have been underage drinking, and I should never have gotten myself into a situation like that.' The statements triggered legal activity in which Johnston requested for hearings to be publicized 'as a check against anyone's need to be overly vindictive, aggressive, or malicious.' Johnston said, 'Not that Bristol would be that way, nor would I. But her mother is powerful, politically ambitious, and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive. So, I think a public case might go a long way in reducing Sarah Palin's instinct to attack.' Johnston in November of 2013 filed court docs to have joint custody of Tripp, saying it had been in the child's best interests, after Bristol previously had been awarded full custody. Bristol said that the court filing had been a move to impact child support payments, as he had been $66,000 behind on his slate at the time. Bristol would again take Johnston to court saying that he had not demonstrated he was fit to be a parent. Bristol said Johnston hadn't had visits with a young Tripp, and squandered his earnings on vacations, luxury vehicles and hunting trips as opposed to his child support obligations. In addition to her work on Dancing With the Stars, Bristol also appeared on the Lifetime TV series Life's a Tripp and MTV's Teen Mom OG in 2018.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Teen Mom''s Mackenzie McKee Laments Josh McKee's Absence in Their Kids' Lives and Considers Filing for Full Custody
Mackenzie McKee is opening up about her co-parenting experience with her former partner. On the latest episode of Teen Mom: The New Chapter, the mom of three, 27, spoke about her co-parenting experience with her ex-husband Josh McKee during a conversation with fiancé Khesanio Hall. She candidly told Hall that she's "really disappointed" in her former partner. "I'm going to be honest, I'm just really disappointed in the father he is being now, but he's always been like this," she said of Josh. "When our divorce went down, I said, 'What kind of custody do you want? I want you in the kids' life and any school break you can see them as long as you provide the transportation.'" "The only two times he sees them is Christmas and summer, and who transports them? You and I, and that's starting to catch on and I just want to shake him and say your children are catching on to your bullcrap and you are going to regret this one day," she continued. "I've been here every day for these kids since day one. I just don't feel like he deserves all the work that we put in to make sure he gets those visits. It's time for me to do something." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Mackenzie McKee Opens Up About Adjusting to New Normal with Her Kids: 'Life Looks Very Different' (Exclusive) Ahead of joining the cast of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, McKee spoke with PEOPLE about how it felt to be reconnecting with viewers, who haven't seen her since her time on Teen Mom OG in 2021. Since then, Mackenzie and Josh decided to part ways after nine years of marriage and 12 years together, welcoming three children together: Broncs, 7, Jaxie, 10, and Gannon, 13. "I have a completely new life! People have seen me with the same person for my whole time on the show and now I am with someone else," she told PEOPLE. "I had never dated as an adult — I was with who I had a baby with at 16. We got married and had two more kids, so now that I'm with someone new, there's a lot of change." In an interview with Celeb Buzz, the reality star — who first rose to fame 16 and Pregnant and later joined the cast of Teen Mom OG — further revealed she was "stepping into an entire new life and new me" following the split. "I'm so thankful for the past 12 years with Josh and what they taught me. Josh and I are both still young with an entire life ahead of us," Mackenzie explained. "I wish nothing but peace and happiness for him and his future. Everyone has their own story, and this is mine." "When that switch happened, when I knew I was going to leave, my entire world changed. I wasn't sad, I wasn't sad about anything, I wasn't angry, I wasn't depressed," she said. "I gained my power back as a female who finally knows her self-worth." Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV. Read the original article on People
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Health
- USA Today
Bristol Palin opens up about facial paralysis condition
Bristol Palin opens up about facial paralysis condition Bristol Palin is letting fans in on her health journey amid a recent medical scare. The "Teen Mom OG" alum and daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin revealed on social media Wednesday that she's been struggling with a case of facial paralysis. "I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face. My mouth was pulling (to the left), and it just felt a little off," said Palin in a series of videos posted to her Instagram Stories. Palin shared several clips of herself over an eight-day period that illustrated the progression of her facial paralysis, with the TV personality reflecting at one point, "It's so bad dude." "Within a couple of hours, the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed," Palin, 34, continued, "(I) couldn't really blink my eye, definitely had no movement on the side of my face. So crazy." Palin did not disclose an exact diagnosis for her condition, though she noted that she underwent a CT scan, numerous tests and was prescribed steroids and other medications. She said her doctors speculated she may have a case of Bell's palsy, a type of temporary facial paralysis, induced by "stress or lack of sleep." According to the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bell's palsy is caused by damage or trauma to the facial nerve (also known as the seventh cranial nerve), causing a disruption of the nerve signal somewhere between its origin at the brain stem to the muscles on either side of the patient's face, causing that side to droop. What is Bell's palsy? The facial paralysis that's affected A-listers like Angelina Jolie and George Clooney Blinking, smiling, raising eyebrows, flaring nostrils and even taste sensations can also be affected since the facial nerve is responsible for those functions. In most cases, only one side of the face is affected, though it can affect both. Bell's palsy has been linked to stress, although a precise cause has not been found. Conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, Lyme disease and autoimmune disorders, chronic ear infections, tumors and trauma to the head or face have also been identified as coinciding with the illness. Tiffany Chen: Robert De Niro's girlfriend says she 'lost all facial function' after birth Several stars have been diagnosed with Bell's palsy, from Angelina Jolie and George Clooney to "Bachelorette" alum Emily Maynard Johnson and Robert De Niro's girlfriend Tiffany Chen. Contributing: USA TODAY Life/Entertainment team
