Post by melbell on May 29, 2009 0:47:28 GMT -5
I had no idea!
90210's Jennie Garth Opens Up About Heart Probs
Wed., May. 27, 2009 8:20 AM PDT by Breanne L. Heldman
Jennie Garth is speaking from the heart…about her heart.
The 90210 star has opened up about a cardiopulmonary disease she's been facing quietly for the past seven years.
"I have a leaky valve," she told Access Hollywood at an American Heart Association's Go Red For Women BetterU Program event. "It's a common thing. A lot of people have it. They don't know they have it…It's your connection to your heart…your artery, the main artery that goes to your heart, it sort of flutters open and shut sort of a thing. It's weird because sometimes when I'm resting I can feel a little weird fluttering."
The actress hasn't allowed the disease to keep her from an active life.
In addition to playing a guidance counselor on TV and mother of three at home, she's involved in multiple heart health charities. E! News caught up with her and her husband, Twilight's Peter Facinelli, earlier this year at the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection fashion show, where she admitted she had "a lot of support backstage" from the other stars involved in the event.
Heart problems have been a source of trouble in Garth's whole family. The star's father died of heart disease last year.
"I've been affected by heart disease practically my whole life," the erstwhile Kelly Taylor said. "My father has struggled with heart disease since he was 50, and I lost him a year ago."
www.eonline.com/uberblog/b125968_90210s_jennie_garth_opens_up_about.html
90210's Jennie Garth Opens Up About Heart Probs
Wed., May. 27, 2009 8:20 AM PDT by Breanne L. Heldman
Jennie Garth is speaking from the heart…about her heart.
The 90210 star has opened up about a cardiopulmonary disease she's been facing quietly for the past seven years.
"I have a leaky valve," she told Access Hollywood at an American Heart Association's Go Red For Women BetterU Program event. "It's a common thing. A lot of people have it. They don't know they have it…It's your connection to your heart…your artery, the main artery that goes to your heart, it sort of flutters open and shut sort of a thing. It's weird because sometimes when I'm resting I can feel a little weird fluttering."
The actress hasn't allowed the disease to keep her from an active life.
In addition to playing a guidance counselor on TV and mother of three at home, she's involved in multiple heart health charities. E! News caught up with her and her husband, Twilight's Peter Facinelli, earlier this year at the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection fashion show, where she admitted she had "a lot of support backstage" from the other stars involved in the event.
Heart problems have been a source of trouble in Garth's whole family. The star's father died of heart disease last year.
"I've been affected by heart disease practically my whole life," the erstwhile Kelly Taylor said. "My father has struggled with heart disease since he was 50, and I lost him a year ago."
www.eonline.com/uberblog/b125968_90210s_jennie_garth_opens_up_about.html