Mormon Wives’ Mikayla Matthews Says She’s “Barely Surviving” After Chronic Illness Diagnosis
Mikayla Matthews may be a Utahn no more.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star shared her process of relocating to Hawaii in an effort to ease her ongoing Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome symptoms.
As Mikayla wrote onscreen in her April 29 Instagram video, “Travel with me to heal my skin.”
“It’s finally time to tell you guys where I’m moving away,” she added in the video which featured her travel journey. “We’re going to Hawaii.”
In the clip, Mikayla—mom to kids Beckham, 8, Haven, 6, Tommie, 4, and Lottie, 9 months, with estranged husband Jace Terry—can be seen traveling to her new destination with two of her little ones.
Although the reality star—who opened up about her diagnosis with CIRS in March—shared she had multiple skin flare-ups during the plane ride to the island, nothing could bring her down. As she put it, “I’m just so excited to be here. Positive vibes.”
“Officially starting the new chapter,” Mikayla, 26, wrote in the caption of the post. “In the most beautiful place how STUNNING is this resort!?! @thewestinmaui.”
While Mikayla didn’t reveal how long she’d be in Hawaii, she did acknowledge how thankful she is to be able to take time for herself.
“I think every single day how grateful I am to be in the position that I’m in,” she said through tears in a separate Instagram video shared April 29. “The stress of having to heal your body and having to worry about taking care of your kids or paying your bills—it’s just so overwhelming.”
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And Mikayla recently detailed that stress while sharing her diagnosis publicly for the first time.
“I’m genuinely just barely surviving,” Mikayla wrote on her Instagram Stories March 18. “Chronic illness is all consuming and I haven’t been able to show up as the mom I want to be for the last couple years. I just want to feel like myself again.”
She also opened up about the root of her illness, explaining how it is “brought on [by] prolonged exposures to toxins,” like mold.
“This condition has stolen literally everything from me,” she continued on her Stories. “I had like a year and half where I couldn’t look people in the eyes. I felt like if I didn’t look them in the eyes then they couldn’t see my skin. It’s something l’m still working on.”
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