In an interview with the American magazine Vanity Fair, the actress Angélina Jolie did not just discuss her divorce from Brad Pitt and her life as a mother of 6 children. She also explained why her life will never be “normal”.
After undergoing a preventive double mastectomy and an removal of the ovaries Due to the BRCA1 gene she carries, Angelina Jolie developed Bell’s palsy, a form of temporary palsy that results from trauma to the facial nerves. “In families, sometimes women hide behind other members until their health calls them to order” she explained to the reporter.
What is Bell’s palsy?
Bell’s palsy affects only one side of the face. It appears suddenly without knowing the cause. But most doctors believe it is a response to a viral infection, which is believed to cause swelling of the 7th facial nerve.
The main symptom is weakness and paralysis on one side of the face. The person who is affected becomes unable to make the usual movements of the face. Most often, an eye becomes impossible to close.
In about 80% of cases, recovery is complete within a few weeks or months, and most of the remainder improves. Angelina Jolie confesses to uses acupuncture to cure his paralysis and declares that he is totally healed today.
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