Bijou Phillips Hospitalized Amid Need for Kidney Transplant

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Bijou Phillips Hospitalized Amid Need for Kidney Transplant

Bijou Phillips Hospitalized Amid Want for Kidney Transplant

Bijou Phillips shared on social media that she is in need of a 2d kidney donation, whereas her get confirmed the Nearly Popular alum is at the 2d within the scientific institution: “Time is of the essence.”

Bijou Phillips is facing a upsetting health fight.

The forty five-365 days-extinct is at the 2d hospitalized, her get confirmed to TMZ, and beneath care at UCLA Health where she’s on dialysis and in need of a 2d kidney donation.

Bijou—who is mom 11-365 days-extinct daughter Fianna with ex-husband Danny Masterson—moreover shared the records on social media, noting, “I need lend a hand discovering a kidney.”

“I’m asking as a chum, a sister, an aunt,” she wrote, “and, most importantly, a single mother to an improbable and dauntless daughter.”

The mannequin moreover shared extra of her legend, noting she changed into once born with underdeveloped kidneys and spent three months within the NICU on dialysis as a newborn.

“In 2017, I acquired the improbable gift of a kidney from a pricey buddy,” she wrote. “That transplant gave me 8 precious years to be a mother to my daughter—however I in actual fact maintain had many complications since, together with the BK virus which ended in both a mobile and antibody rejection.”

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Sharing the title of her doctor, Dr. Anjay Rastogi, Bijou moreover shared information about how to develop accurate into a donor.

Noting “time is of the essence” and thanking fans for their make stronger, she concluded, “Please lend a hand me catch a living donor in direct that I’m able to maintain overtime with my daughter, family, and associates.”

Accompanying the message had been images of Bijou and Fianna together, the first an image of her daughter as a newborn resting on her chest as successfully as a 2d of an older Fianna and her mom sharing a sweet kiss.

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Whereas Bijou in overall retains glances at her daughter to a minimal on social media, in October the Nearly Popular alum made a immense determination: she filed a petition to legally change Fianna’s closing title from Masterson to Phillips.

The petition, which changed into once obtained at the time by E! News, changed into once filed whereas Danny is in penal complicated serving a 30-365 days to life penal complicated sentence after being convicted on two counts of rape in 2023. Bijou filed for divorce from the That ‘70s Repeat alum that identical 365 days.

One 365 days later, she urged E! News, “I'm doing staunch,” noting she and Fianna form a “enormous shrimp team.”

As Bijou seeks out a new kidney so she and Fianna can proceed to be the top pair, read on for extra stars who maintain shared their health challenges publicly.

Nikki Garcia's Breast Implant Injury

The Total Bellas alum revealed that regarded as one of her breast implants shifted after an elbow slam from fellow WWE massive title Piper Niven for the duration of a July 2025 wrestling match.

“It's OK,” she urged sister Bella Garcia at the time. “We're going to get it mounted one day. I urged the doctor, I am going, 'Newly divorced, so the minute the boots are hung up, I'm going to arrive lend a hand to you and we're going to form these ladies survey real staunch, attributable to those ladies are going to get some action within the prolonged stride and that can't survey like that.'”

Lupita Nyong'o's Uterine Fibroids

The 12 Years a Slave massive title changed into once identified with uterine fibroids—non-cancerous growths that construct in or spherical the uterus—in 2014, the identical 365 days she acquired an Oscar for efficiency within the movie.

Nonetheless, it wasn't except 2025 when she disclosed her diagnosis, writing on Instagram that she had been “suffering in silence” for bigger than a decade.

“After we attain puberty, we're taught sessions mean effort, and that effort is merely part of being a girl,” she shared. “We're struggling alone with one thing that affects us most.”

Suki Waterhouse's Hernia

In July 2025, the Daisy Jones & The Six massive title shared that she had been hospitalized attributable to a hernia—a gap within the muscular wall that's time and once more stumbled on within the abdominal or groin rental—precipitated by carrying tight pants.

“'Suki you by no system tweet anymore,'” she wrote on X, formerly referred to as Twitter. “Get hang of you ever belief to be I wore pants so tight 6 months ago it precipitated a hernia & I’ve been too horrified to boom you?”

Brian Austin Green's Perforated Appendix

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum revealed in April 2025 that he changed into once recovering from surgical treatment after his appendix almost burst.

“Final week, I began feeling some effort in my abdominal,” Brian said in an Instagram video at the time. “I ended up going to the emergency room, and I had a perforated appendix. No longer moderately burst, however correct sooner than.”

He added, “I'm on the motorway to restoration. It's no longer an straightforward route of. Right here is my first basic surgical treatment.”

Savannah DeMelo Suffers “Clinical Emergency” Mid-Game

The Racing Louisville midfielder collapsed correct just a few minutes into her soccer team’s Sept. 14 match against Seattle Reign at Lumen Field in Seatle.

The United States Ladies folks’s Nationwide Crew player may per chance moreover be viewed slowly sitting down on the realm with a teammate by her aspect, per Reuters, as the referee called for trainers to take a look at her out. She collapsed seconds later.

“Savannah acquired quick on-arena care from scientific personnel and changed into once transported to a native scientific institution for added evaluate,” the Nationwide Ladies folks’s Soccer League wrote on X later that evening. “She is right and alert.”

Adam Devine's Prolonged-Time period Injury From Childhood Accident

Adam Devine shared that accidents he sustained after getting hit by a cement truck when he changed into once 11 years extinct are tranquil affecting him to this day.

“It’s been a nightmare,” Devine said in a 2025 episode of the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. “I in actual fact maintain spasms all the blueprint thru. For a whereas, [the doctors] urged me I changed into once dying—actually, within this closing 365 days.”

He mighty that effort comes and goes, adding, “My body has all these items that are a shrimp wonky and a shrimp gruesome with it.”

Jason Tartick's Support Injury

The Bachelor Nation alum shared that he went to the scientific institution “crawling on all fours” attributable to overwhelming lend a hand effort that changed into once aggravated for the duration of an RV time out with a chum.

“Lovely now, knees to my toes, it’s, like, tranquil tingly, which is loopy,” he said on a March 2025 episode of his Trading Secrets and systems podcast. “And to position in viewpoint, I don’t know, man, like now to no longer sound douchey, however like two, three weeks ago, possibly a month ago, I changed into once squatting doubtlessly like 295 kilos. And directly, I’m able to’t place a squat on my foot. I’m able to’t place a one legged squat, I tumble. It’s like I had a stroke or one thing.”

Nonetheless with the lend a hand of a lend a hand specialist and some steroids, he added, “We’re on the mend.”

Matt Kirschenheiter's Coronary heart Attack

Actual Housewives of Orange County’s Gina Kirschenheiter shared her ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter suffered a coronary heart attack in March 2025, however fortunately survived the ordeal.

Tracy Morgan's Clinical Emergency

The 30 Rock massive title suffered a health scare at a New York Knicks basketball recreation in March 2025, ensuing in him being wheeled out of Madison Square Backyard.

Nonetheless, the comic shared an replace on social media the next day, noting it changed into once a case of food poisoning and that he changed into once on the mend.

Christy Carlson Romano's Peer Injury

The Even Stevens alum shared in February 2025 that she changed into once shot within the face whereas on a time out to shoot clay pigeons to maintain a really top time husband Brendan Rooney's birthday.

“There changed into once but any other occasion with us they assuredly unsafely fired within the gruesome route and shot me within the face,” she wrote on Instagram. “@thebrendanrooney straight sprung into action, assessed me, and rushed me to the scientific institution. I changed into once hit in 5 locations, one changed into once lower than an lag from hitting me straight in my accurate survey.”

The Kim Imaginable alum continued, “Sadly a fragment got lodged within the lend a hand of my survey and it’s a long way simply too bad to put off surgically at the moment. Clinical doctors will proceed to video display me (I’m able to survey in overall at the 2d).”

The actress said she changed into once grateful to be alive. “I cherish my daughters, husband, family, and associates so mighty,” she said. “I observed my life flash sooner than my eyes and I’m telling you, hug the folk spherical you each likelihood you’d moreover. Existence can change in an instantaneous.”

Amy Schumer’s Cushing Syndrome

Whereas the web isn't continuously a form space, Amy Schumer is chuffed that, in this case, it helped her get answers.

“The score in actual fact got here for me after doing a bunch of press, and I changed into once like, 'OK each person, relax,'” Amy recalled of her “puffier” face on a January 2025 episode of Call Her Daddy. “Nonetheless then doctors had been chiming in within the feedback they assuredly had been like, 'No no, we predict one thing’s in actual fact up. Your face looks so loopy that we predict one thing’s up. And I’m like, ‘Wait, I’m getting trolled by doctors?’”

After these doctors said they belief she had Cushing syndrome and that it can moreover be precipitated by spiking coritsol ranges or steroid injections, the Existence & Beth creator belief, “Wait, I in actual fact had been getting steroid injections in my scars.”

“I had a breast reduction, a C-fragment, no matter, and so I changed into once getting these steroid injections,” Amy said. “So it gave me this dispute called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t maintain known if the web hadn’t arrive for me so exhausting.”

Toda, Amy is correct relieved she's OK. As she shared in a February 2024 News No longer Noise newsletter, “Checking out I in actual fact maintain the extra or much less Cushing that can correct work itself out and I'm healthy changed into once the top records that you just’d moreover disclose of.”

Casey Fitzgerald's Neck Injury From Hockey Skate Blade

The AHL player changed into once slit by a fellow player's skate for the duration of a recreation in December 2024 and acquired 25 stitches. His father, New Jersey Devils standard manager Tom Fitzgerald later urged ESPN after his son changed into once fully recovered, “We're very lucky. I don't desire that on any parent.”

Hailey Bieber's Blood Clot

Hailey Bieber had the “scariest 2d” of her life when she changed into once having breakfast with husband Justin Bieber and began experiencing stroke-like symptoms in March 2022.

“Justin changed into once like, 'Are you OK?'” the Rhode skincare tycoon shared a month later on YouTube, “and I correct didn't reply attributable to I wasn't distinct. And then he requested me once more and once I went to answer, I couldn't talk about. The ideal aspect of my face began drooping. I couldn't get a sentence out.”

Whereas Hailey said the facial drooping stopped and her speech got here lend a hand, she went to the scientific institution to form distinct she changed into once OK.

“They did some scans they assuredly had been ready to survey that I had suffered a shrimp blood clot to my brain,” the mannequin added, “which they labeled and categorized as one thing called a TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack].”

Later, Hailey went to the College of California, Los Angeles, where she stumbled on out she had a gap in her coronary heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO).

She explained the blood clot had traveled into her coronary heart, “escaped” thru the gap and went to her brain, ensuing within the TIA.

Hailey said she had a a hit PFO closure design and changed into once now feeling enormous.

Justin Bieber's Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

The identical 365 days Hailey had her health scare, Justin experienced regarded as one of his contain.

In June 2022, the “Child” singer shared he changed into once identified with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a situation that precipitated non eternal paralysis to components of his face and compelled him to break the remainder of his Justice World Tour.

“It is a long way from this virus that assaults the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has precipitated my face to maintain paralysis,” Justin explained in an Instagram video at the time. “As you’d moreover survey, this survey is no longer blinking. I’m able to't smile on this aspect of my face. This nostril will no longer switch. So, there's fleshy paralysis on this aspect of my face.”

Of route, he urged his followers it had gotten “progressively more challenging to employ.” Nonetheless after a whereas, the paralysis went away.

“He's doing in actual fact successfully,” Hailey said on a June 2022 episode of Correct Morning The United States, later adding, “He's feeling significantly better. Obviously, it changed into once correct a extraordinarily upsetting and random dispute to happen, however he's going to be completely OK and I'm correct grateful that he's stunning.”

Jamie Foxx's Mind Bleed & Stroke

Whereas Jamie Foxx initially saved information of his April 2023 hospitalization personal, he later opened up about what he went thru.

One day in Atlanta, “I changed into once having this kind of depraved headache, so I requested my boy, I said, ‘Hear, I need an aspirin,’” the Oscar winner said in his 2024 Netflix special What Had Came about Grow to be… “Earlier than I may per chance moreover get the Aspirin, I went out. I don’t take note 20 days.”

Jamie said he changed into once initially taken to a doctor who gave him a cortisone shot after which despatched him home. Nonetheless, his fervent sister Deidra Dixon then drove him to a scientific institution, where they got an solution: He had a brain bleed that ended in a stroke.

Twenty days after present process an operation, the Django Unchained awoke Can also 4 in a wheelchair and couldn’t stroll. He then went to Chicago for rehabilitation and remedy.

“All I’m able to boom you is that I love every prayer,” he said, “attributable to I needed every prayer.”

Tracey Yukich's Clinical Emergency on The Very top Loser

The truth massive title revealed that she “died” whereas running a mile for the duration of the first distress of the NBC competition series.

“I don't take note a lot,” she explained on Match for TV: The Fact of The Very top Loser. “I take note listening to the helicopter. I correct felt like I changed into once floating. And then my grandpa changed into once there. And then I observed darkness. Nonetheless then I observed gentle. So I knew, I knew I died that day.”

“My organs had been actually shutting down,” she continued. “I didn't realize that I had rhabdomyolysis. And rhabdomyolysis is your body's manner of asserting, ‘I'm going to shut down on you.’”

Emilia Clarke's Mind Aneurysm

Emilia Clarke filmed fight scenes for Game of Thrones, however in 2019, she printed an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Existence.”

Having a depraved headache at the fitness middle, “I reached the bathroom, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously sick,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the trouble—taking pictures, stabbing, constricting effort—changed into once getting worse. At some level, I knew what changed into once occurring: my brain changed into once damaged.”

She changed into once taken to the scientific institution for a brain scan.

“The diagnosis changed into once posthaste and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening trend of stroke, precipitated by bleeding into the spot surrounding the brain,” the Emmy nominee added. “I’d had an aneurysm, an arterial break.”

Emilia had quick surgical treatment to seal the aneurysm, calling the trouble “unbearable.” Whereas she changed into once recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and changed into once “muttering nonsense.”

Per week later, “the aphasia handed,” Emilia added, and she or he left the scientific institution a month after being admitted.

At a 2013 brain scan, she realized a enhance “doubled in size” and that she wanted surgical treatment once more.

“When they woke me, I changed into once screaming in effort,” she wrote. “The design had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it straightforward that my possibilities of surviving had been precarious if they didn’t operate once more. This time they wanted to get entry to my brain within the extinct-long-established manner—thru my cranium.”

Fortuitously, Emilia shared, she's now “at a hundred per cent.”

Cori Broadus's Stroke

Snoop Dogg's daughter Cori Broadus is grateful for her family.

Due to after she suffered a “severe stroke” in January 2024, her cherished ones rushed to be by her aspect.

“I texted them that I correct had a stroke and despatched them a describe,” she urged E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi in December 2024. “Each person correct got here to my rescue.”

Due to of assorted scientific concerns, Cori ended up staying within the scientific institution longer than she initially expected.

“I may per chance moreover maintain went home after my stroke, however my lupus wasn't doing so successfully,” the Snoop's Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne's Chronicle massive title continued. “
My kidneys had been failing. It changed into once a lot going on.”

This day, Cori is on the mend.

“I'm doing enormous,” she added. “I correct had a shrimp little bit of motor skills that I needed to work lend a hand on. Nonetheless moderately tons of than that, I changed into once stunning.”

Shailene Woodley's Health Battle

Shailene Woodley’s early 20s had been no longer an straightforward time health-practical.

“It got to the point where I changed into once losing my listening to. I couldn’t stroll for longer than 5 minutes at a time with out having to lay down for hours, and hours and sleep. Every thing I ate hurt my abdominal,” the actress said on a September 2024 episode of the SHE MD Podcast. “It changed into once this conflation of issues and diagnoses and moderately tons of doctors telling me moderately tons of issues.”

So Shailene—who chose to withhold the explicit situation personal—spot out to search out answers.

“I arrive from a extraordinarily holistic background and seek for herbalism,” she added. “So I changed into once very focused on, ‘I’m going to work with real MDs, [and] I’m moreover going to work with self sufficient extra or much less healers.’ Correct making an strive to investigate cross-test for some sense of comfort in my contain pores and skin.”

It changed into once a prolonged slither—one which lasted for 10 years.

“All the blueprint thru that decade, a lot of moderately tons of issues got here from feeling so mighty discomfort physically,” the Giant Little Lies massive title mighty, “which changed into once, ‘My gosh, if the total lot I employ hurts my abdominal, I’m now all straight away petrified of food.’ And then going into the extra or much less psychological f–ckery that can happen with that of body dysmorphia and confusion about identity and feeling right in my contain tablet, in my contain pores and skin, what that intended, and what that ought to be.”

After tending to both her physical and psychological health, Shailene is feeling significantly better.

“It changed into once a slither that finally physically resolved itself, and I am very healthy,” she shared. “I’m so chuffed to be ready to teach that.”

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