Paulina Porizkova is going under the knife.
The model, 58, announced on Instagram Thursday that she is getting a “long overdue” double hip replacement surgery.
“From bikini to hospital chic,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself in a blue swimsuit and a selfie lying in a hospital bed.
Porizkova shared that she enjoyed “one last vacation with old hips” before undergoing the operation and is “grateful” that it is a “fixable problem.”
The “No Filter” author went on to explain that she was born with “congenital hip dysplasia- and because of that, the cartilage in [her] hips is worn down.”
Porizkova added that three doctors “all recoiled” when they saw her X-rays and determined that the situation was so dire she would need to fix both hips simultaneously.
“It’s so bad, in fact,” she wrote, “that doing one hip at the time is pointless. It would actually impede the healing and mobility.”
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According to the Mayo Clinic, hip dysplasia can cause complications such as osteoarthritis or a hip labral tear. It happens when “a hip socket that doesn’t fully cover the ball portion of the upper thighbone.”
The former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl admitted to feeling some anxiety but gave a shout-out to her support team, which includes her boyfriend, Jeff Greenstein, her two sons with her late husband, Ric Ocasek, and “a slew of friends volunteering to come and bring [her] soup.”
Porizkova has long shared her ups and downs on social media.
She struggled both emotionally and financially when Ocasek died in 2019 at the age of 75.
Despite their plans to divorce, Porizkova believed she and the Cars frontman had been on good terms before his death and was devastated to discover he had cut her out of his will.
The Czech-born stunner has also been open about coming to terms with the aging process.
She posed without clothes on Instagram for her 58th birthday and admitted that while “some days” she likes that her “face has gained character even as it’s lost its youthful prettiness,” she sometimes struggles with getting older.
“Other days, (and this is mostly only if I do a photoshoot), I have to gulp some self acceptance,” she wrote. “I have changed.”
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