Brooke Shields recounted a daunting — and really contemporary — fitness scare right through a November 1 interview with Glamour. The 58-year-old Princeton College graduate suffered from a magnificent mal seizure, she defined to the e-newsletter.
The Unexpectedly Susan alum described what ended in the horrifying year right through her dialog with the opening’s editor-in-chief, Samantha Barry. “I was drinking so much water, and I didn’t know I was low in sodium,” Brooke admitted. “I flooded my system, and I drowned myself, and if you don’t have enough sodium in your blood or urine or your body, you can have a seizure.”
“I was waiting for an Uber; I get down to the bottom of the steps, and I start evidently looking weird, and [the people I was with] were like, ‘Are you OK?’” Brooke remembered. “I go in, two women come up to me; I don’t know them. Everything starts to go black. Then, my hands drop to my side, and I go headfirst into the wall. I start having a grand mal seizure. It means frothing at the mouth, totally blue, trying to swallow my tongue. The next thing I remember, I’m being loaded into an ambulance. I have oxygen on.”
Nearest being loaded into the ambulance, Brooke couldn’t support however realize one Hollywood heartthrob upcoming to her: “f**king Bradley Cooper,” as she put it right through her interview.
Since Brooke’s husband, Chris Henchy, wasn’t round to be there for her, his colleague “called Bradley and said, ‘Brooke’s on the ground. Chris isn’t around. Go get her.’”
“And he came, and somebody called the ambulance,” Brooke stated. “And then it was like, ‘I walked in with Jesus.’ … I didn’t have a sense of humor. I couldn’t really get any words out. But I thought to myself, ‘This is what death must be like.’ You wake up and Bradley Cooper’s going, ‘I’m going to go to the hospital with you, Brooke,’ and he’s holding my hand.”
The previous Hannah Montana actress defined how “odd and surreal” the enjoy used to be for her date remembering how Bradley, 48, held her hand. Scientific body of workers conceived that Brooke’s “brain was seizing,” however she begged the physician to “get [her] better.”
“And they had the EEGs and things; they thought my brain was seizing,” she persisted. “They had catheters; they had IVs. I was stuck. And then they put me into ICU, and that’s where I got bronchitis.”
Since Brooke’s machine used to be low on salt, she famous that probably the most medical doctors conceived that she intentionally restricted her sodium consumption.
“And then, male doctors kept asking me if I was limiting my salt,” she defined. “And I said, ‘You know what? I’ve had it with male doctors. I know you’re all smart — smarter than I am in what you do. But let me just tell you something: I look younger when I’m bloated. If I’m bloated, people think I’ve had Botox.’ So, as a 58-year-old woman, I’m not limiting my salt, OK? Stop trying to make me a crazy actress or a female that doesn’t know what the f**k they’re doing.”
Towards the top of her harrowing tale, Brooke insisted that the cause of her ingesting “too much water” used to be merely “because I felt dehydrated because I was singing more than I’ve ever sung in my life and doing a show and a podcast. So, they were just like, “Eat potato chips every day.’”
