On Sunday (Dec. 21), TMZ reported that supermodel and video vixen, Anok Yai, has been struggling in silence with an issue she’s had since start: A lung defect. Yai, who shared a put up of her hospital keep on Instagram, goes into horrifying element concerning the points she’s been going through. “For the past year, I’ve been dealing with this silent battle,” she begins the prolonged put up. “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, then at times struggling to breathe,” Yai continued. “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 well being would proceed to worsen.” However, on a lighter observe, the mannequin just lately had a profitable robotic lung surgical procedure. While she’s on the mend, she needs her supporters to know you can’t “outwork or outrun anything” and that the “universe has a way of slowing you down.”