Bella Hadid posts troubling photos of health struggle, mom says it's chronic Lyme disease

After supermodel Bella Hadid posted alarming photos of herself hooked up to medical equipment, mother Yolanda Hadid said watching her daughter struggle against Lyme disease "has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me."

After supermodel Bella Hadid posted alarming photos of herself hooked up to medical equipment, her mother said Thursday that watching her daughter struggle with Lyme disease "has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me."

Bella Hadid on Wednesday posted a collection of photos to Instagram with the caption, "I’m sorry I always go MIA I love you guys." Many of the photos appear to show her in emotional distress while hooked up to IVs and machines in a medical office.

Her mother, onetime reality-TV figure Yolanda Hadid, posted an Instagram picture of herself hugging her ill daughter, who appears to be in a hospital room.

"As you will understand watching my Bella struggle in silence, has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me," former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Yolanda Hadid wrote. "The invisible disability of chronic neurological Lyme disease is hard to explain or understand for anyone."

The elder Hadid, 61, praised her 28-year-old daughter's fight.