Supermodel Anok Yai has revealed her battle with a heart condition, which led to her undergoing robotic lung surgery.
The 28-year-old Model of the Year winner shared in an Instagram post that she had been diagnosed with a congenital lung defect, a silent battle she had been dealing with for the past year, which is overworking her heart and slowly destroying her lungs.
Adding that she had been asymptomatic for a huge part of her life, she found out about the condition after a lingering cough. According to Wikipedia, robotic surgery is any type of surgical procedure that is performed with the use of robotic systems.
She wrote:
For the past year, I’ve been dealing with this silent battle. I incidentally found out I had a congenital defect, overworking my heart and slowly destroying my lungs.
What started as something asymptomatic for the majority of my life turned into a lingering cough, which turned to chest pains, bouts of coughing up blood, and then, at times, struggling to breathe.
I chose to work through this while trying to find the right doctor and the right time. I quickly realized there was never going to be a “right time”—my health would continue to worsen.
I’ve always thought I could outwork or outrun anything, but the universe has a way of slowing you down and waking you up.
So yesterday I had a successful Robotic Lung Surgery thanks to Dr. Robert Cerfolio and his gracious and talented team, who I am forever indebted to for giving me more time.
And I am forever grateful for Dr. Harmik Soukiasian and everyone at the@beverlyhillsconciergehealth for discovering my condition.
Thank you to all the doctors and amazing nurses at @nyulangone
And thank you to my friends and family for being the first thing I saw when I woke up.
For now, I’m healing … But I’ll be back. See ya.