Supermodel Anok Yai Recognized with Congenital Lung Defect

Supermodel Anok Yai has been silently battling a congenital defect that she says is “overworking [her] coronary heart and slowly destroying [her] lungs.”

The 28-year-old Victoria’s Secret runway mannequin took to Instagram to disclose she’s been coping with this “silent battle” for the final yr and underwent surgical procedure to handle it.

Alongside movies of her in a hospital mattress, Yai shares, “What began as one thing asymptomatic for almost all of my life was a lingering cough, which turned to chest pains, bouts of coughing up blood, then at occasions struggling to breathe.”

Yai says she selected to work by way of her ache all whereas looking for the appropriate physician and the appropriate time … however rapidly realized there was by no means going to be a “proper time” and that her well being would “proceed to worsen.”

The type icon additionally will get susceptible about how she at all times thought she may outwork or outrun something, however notes … “the universe has a manner of slowing you down and waking you up.”

She then reveals she had a profitable robotic lung surgical procedure … and takes a second to thank all her docs.