Bristol Palin spoke about her ongoing bout with facial paralysis in an Instagram Stories clip Wednesday.
The Wasilla, Alaska-born reality star, 34, spoke about her ongoing health battle while she was seated in a vehicle clad in a green sweatshirt with gold hoop earrings and her hair tied back.
Palin explained to her followers what she was going through, as the health crisis hit the three-week mark.
‘We’re on 23 of this, which is absolutely insane,’ she said. ‘Can’t move the left side of my face at all. It’s really hard to blink. I can’t blow out a candle. My sisters makes so much fun of me because I look crazy.’
Bristol – the daughter of former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin – told more 552,000 followers on the platform the adjustments she’s made to her health regimen amid the battle with facial paralysis.
Bristol said in the Instagram Stories clip said that she has undergone treatments spanning acupuncture, massage, oxygen chamber treatment and red light therapy, as well as cutting out ‘most of the processed foods’ in her diet.
Bristol Palin spoke about her ongoing bout with facial paralysis in an Instagram Stories clip Wednesday.
The Wasilla, Alaska-born reality star, 34, spoke about her ongoing health battle while she was seated in a vehicle
Bristol said she was ‘eliminating most caffeine’ in her diet.
‘I still have a cup of coffee in the morning, but trying to clean up everything – to be very healthy – but since this was onset by stress, since it was set off by stress, I’ve been trying to eliminate anything that I can control that serves no purpose,’ she told her followers.
Bristol said she was focusing her efforts on eliminating the stress from her day-to-day routine in an effort to ‘lighter and feel better’ and not cause the ‘physical reaction’ she’s had.
‘I’m sleeping pretty sound sticking to a routine – just trying my best to get this healed,’ Bristol said.
Bristol was thrust into the national limelight in 2008 amid her mother’s vice presidential campaign alongside then Republican presidential candidate, late Arizona Sen. John McCain.
She appeared at the Republican National Convention in September 2008 alongside Johnston, as her pregnancy with Tripp when she was 17 made headlines, amid her mother’s swift rise to political prominence as McCain’s running mate.
Beyond the campaign, her relationship with Johnston remained in the public eye amid a pair of engagements before they eventually split for good.
Bristol made headlines in 2009 when she signed on for a $262,500 position to serve as an abstinence ambassador for a teen pregnancy prevention organization called The Candie’s Foundation.
Bristol said she was ‘eliminating most caffeine’ in her diet, sans her morning coffee
Bristol pictured in May of 2022 along with her son Tripp, 15, daughters Sailor Grace, eight, and Atlee Bay, seven, and ex-husband Dakota Meyer, 36
‘Abstinence is the only way you can effectively 100 percent prevent pregnancy,’ Bristol said in a 2009 Good Morning America appearance. ‘It’s the safest choice and it will prevent teen pregnancy and a lot of heartache.’
Bristol in March of 2015 revealed she was engaged to Dakota Meyer, a Medal of Honor winner as a Marine. After calling off their engagement, they wed in 2016, prior to Meyer filing for divorce in 2018.
In her 2011 book Not Afraid of My Life, Bristol dubbed Levi a ‘gnat’ who had ‘stolen her virginity’ after she had been consuming alcohol.
Appearing on Good Morning America in June of 2011, Bristol clarified she was ‘not accusing Levi of date rape or rape at all.
‘I’m looking back with adult eyes and thinking, that was a foolish decision,’ she said. ‘I should never have been underage drinking, and I should never have gotten myself into a situation like that.’
The statements triggered legal activity in which Johnston requested for hearings to be publicized ‘as a check against anyone’s need to be overly vindictive, aggressive, or malicious.’
Johnston said, ‘Not that Bristol would be that way, nor would I. But her mother is powerful, politically ambitious, and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive…So, I think a public case might go a long way in reducing Sarah Palin’s instinct to attack.’
Johnston in November of 2013 filed court docs to have joint custody of Tripp, saying it had been in the child’s best interests, after Bristol previously had been awarded full custody.
Bristol said that the court filing had been a move to impact child support payments, as he had been $66,000 behind on his slate at the time.
Bristol posed with her daughters as they headed off for their first day of school last fall
Bristol and her then high school sweetheart Levi were thrust into the public eye after her mother Sarah Palin announced the 17-year-old was pregnant at the 2008 Republican National Convention
Bristol and Levi called off their engagement in March 2009, just three months after their son, Tripp, was born on December 27, 2008
Bristol would again take Johnston to court saying that he had not demonstrated he was fit to be a parent.
Bristol said Johnston hadn’t had visits with a young Tripp, and squandered his earnings on vacations, luxury vehicles and hunting trips as opposed to his child support obligations.
In addition to her work on Dancing With the Stars, Bristol also appeared on the Lifetime TV series Life’s a Tripp and MTV’s Teen Mom OG in 2018.
