Kathie Lee Gifford is one of the most popular TV personalities. She is beloved by millions of people across the country and around the world. She has recently had some bad luck with her health. Kathie Lee Gifford was recently hospitalized after suffering a fall while recovering from hip replacement surgery. The television star told the reporters that she fell and fractured her pelvis in two places. This occurred in the midst of her rehabilitation following hip replacement surgery.
She claimed the incident occurred when she overextended herself while shifting books during a book signing event in Nashville. The following day, when she went to open the door for her pals, she tripped. “It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot,” Gifford explained of her collapse. “The next thing you know, I’m back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, both front and back. That is more excruciating than anything I experienced with my hip. “The pelvis is extremely painful.”
“You think you know your body, and then you realize it changes as you get older,” said the former Today show anchor. “As much as I don’t wanna think about it, I am.” Earlier this month, Gifford returned to her old haunt, the Today show, and spoke with 59-year-old Hoda Kotb. She revealed in the interview that she was still healing from hip replacement surgery while promoting her new work, Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior.
She claimed that prior to surgery, Gifford was in “agonizing pain” and had “one of the worst hips” her doctor had ever seen. She stated that she underwent her hip replacement surgery a month ago. “I had been in such agonizing pain,” Gifford said, adding that her physical discomfort “was terrible” prior to her operation. “My doctor finished the surgery, came in to tell me it went beautifully and then said, ‘Kathie, how have you been existing all this time?'” she laughed.
“He said, ‘It’s one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.'” Her lifestyle could have been the cause of her hip problems. “You’re always on the go,” Kotb told Gifford. They co-hosted Today for 11 years when Gifford retired and moved to Nashville in 2019. “I never saw you stop, even when in the car. I remember you penning notes. Your brain and body are constantly working.”In April of this year, Gifford spoke with Rachel Smith on her decision to depart two of TV’s most famous morning shows, Today and Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee.
“Some of it is just gut feeling, you know? I’ve been in this business for 60 years, so I’ve had a lot of failures and a lot of successes — successes that exceeded my wildest expectations,” she remarked. “You’re sitting right now under four Emmys I never imagined I’d get. I am grateful for them, but as I get older, that matters less.” She continued, “I look at [my Emmys] and I’m grateful; thank you, Lord. But my trophy are the people I’ve met throughout my life, the people in each of those places. I’ve spent 15 years with Regis and 11 with Hoda. The trophies we collect in life that genuinely count are human, you understand.”