Hailey Baldwin Reveals She Underwent Heart Surgery After Blood Clot: ‘Scariest Moment of My Life’

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In her own words. After Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) was sent to the hospital following a blood clot in her brain, she opened up about her experience.“I had a very scary incident on March 10, basically I was sitting at breakfast with my husband [Justin Bieber], having a normal day, normal conversation and we were in the middle of talking and all of a sudden, I felt this really weird sensation that kind of like traveled down my arm from my shoulder all the way down to my fingertips,” the model, 25, explained in a YouTube video, which was posted on Wednesday, April 27. “It made my fingertips feel really numb and weird.”The New York native revealed that the “Peaches” crooner, 28, had asked how she was feeling but she did not respond “because [she] wasn’t sure” before noting that she couldn’t speak.

Hailey indicated that the right side of her face started drooping and she struggled to form words.The twosome — who wed in 2018 — thought Hailey was having a stroke, which she called the “scariest moment of [her] life.” They immediately called for medical attention in the middle of their breakfast before heading to the hospital.“It was like my tongue and my mouth could not form sentences,” she recalled, noting that her face only had drooped for approximately 30 seconds. “I noticed that when the speech [eventually] came back and I felt like I could talk, as soon as my anxiety would settle in or hit me, it would make my speech feel funny again.”Hailey noted that she was “pretty much back to normal” by the time she arrived in the emergency room.“[Doctors] were able to see that I had suffered a small blood clot in my brain, which they labeled and categorized as something called a TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack], basically it’s like