The beauty, talent and love life of Elizabeth Taylor are well known to the world, but the film icon’s health problems are something that make her even more of a fighter. While the actress, who won two Academy Awards and went through eight marriages to seven different husbands, has certainly had a life filled with glamor and drama, she’s also overcame an unexpected number of injuries and illnesses.
While filming National Velvet in 1944, for example, 12-year-old Taylor was thrown from a horse and hurts her back. But not this case, huh scoliosis – or curvature of the spine – which she was born with, is responsible for the chronic back pain the actress has suffered throughout her life.
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Another unpleasant incident on the set while working on the movie “Elephant Walk” in 1953. Then a rusty fever stuck in the eye of the actress and is removed after surgery.
Later, the star diverges close to death due to severe pneumonia. Elizabeth Taylor underwent an emergency tracheotomy in 1961.
“They pronounced me dead four times, so they could give me anything just to see if they could get me to breathe,” the actress told host Larry King. In 1990, she spent three months in the hospital with another near-fatal bout of pneumonia. She also experienced a milder such case in 2000.
Not only her physical but also her mental health was challenged when in 1983 the actress enters the Betty Ford Center, which offers treatment for alcohol and drug addicts. She became the first celebrity to use the restaurant’s services a year after its opening.
The New York Times published an excerpt from the diary she kept during her stay there: “I feel like I’m in hell. I’m going through withdrawal… I’m so, so tired’, the actress wrote. Taylor reentered the center in 1988 for his second and final rehab.
Because of severe respiratory infection in 1992 the star has been canceling engagements for several weeks. Her physician at the time, Dr. Michael Roth, released the following statement: “Due to a recurrence of a severe upper respiratory infection with fever bordering on pneumonia, and in view of her past health history, I have asked Miss Taylor to cancel all duties for the next few weeks.”
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The health problems of the actress in the 90s continued with had her left hip replaced in 1994, as well as her right a year later. “My body is a real mess,” she told W magazine in 2004, describing her many health problems.
After receiving fainting and strokein 1997 Elizabeth Taylor was diagnosed with benign brain tumor. Doctors successfully removed it. Shortly after that the actress bravely posed for the cover of Life magazine with hair barely a few centimeters long.
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The black and white photo was taken by renowned photographer Hurt Ribbs, as in the shot, the actress exudes both vulnerability and strength. No one has ever seen the star in such a light: stripped of her iconic short black hair, instead of brittle locks, a scar can be seen running the length of her head. She wears neither the precious jewelry she loves so much, nor special clothes.
Thus, at the age of 65, Taylor with steadfastness and a sense of humor meets another challenge in his life. “I survived and how,” she once says. “I will drag my sable coat behind me to a ripe old age.”
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Even cancer fails to bring down elizabeth taylor. She underwent radiation therapy for basal cell carcinoma in June 2002. Three months later, her doctor, Ronald Thompson, said the cancer was gone: “There was no evidence of residual disease.”
In 2004, the actress suffered surgery to repair seven compression fractures of the spine. “People must have thought, ‘Oh my God, is she still alive?’ But there’s a resilience in me that keeps me fighting. It’s the most damn thing – I just keep coming back,” commented Taylor.
In the same year, the star revealed that she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Seven years later, it became the cause of the death of 79-year-old Elizabeth Taylor on March 23, 2011 – two months after she was hospitalized.
“The ups and downs, the problems and the stress, along with all the happiness, gave me optimism and hope because I’m living proof of survival,” she shared in an interview, making people wonder how much life there really is. “I’ve been through things that would knock down an ox.”
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