Selma Blair is feeling grateful.
On Thursday, the 46-year-old actress took to Instagram to share a throwback photo of herself from before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but was starting to experience the debilitating symptoms of the disease.
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In the snap, taken in the summer, the Cruel Intentions star looks happy while eating dinner outside with a friend. She wrote in the caption:
“A beautiful summer night in Miami. My flare was already hitting. I didn’t know what was happening. But I sat outside and had a gorgeous dinner with my dear friend. All we have is right now. This. Is the past. But I remember knowing to just feel the warmth in the breeze. The gift of this trip.”
But behind her peaceful gaze, the actress revealed she was in quite some pain. She added:
“Under the table my leg was dead. I couldn’t stay awake and my right hand couldn’t find my mouth. But I was happy.”
Blair noted that her 7-year-old son Arthur was resting next to her, making this a perfect summertime memory:
“My son is asleep next to me. I hear his breathing. That of a tender soul, a young boy who will wake full of energy,” she wrote. “I am going to curl up next to him. Cause that is what this wonderful life can bring. The now. The now I love. So… goodnight. ???. #now #twinkle”
We love how she sees the positivity in everything!
The post comes a little over a week after the actress gave her first television interview since revealing her diagnosis in October.
Blair revealed on GMA that finally receiving her diagnosis gave a sense of relief, seeing as it came after months of doctors telling her her symptoms were due to being a single mother and overworked. She explained to Robin Roberts:
“I was self-medicating when [Arthur] wasn’t with me. I was drinking. I was in pain. I wasn’t always drinking, but there were times when I couldn’t take it and I was really struggling with, ‘How am I going get by in life?’ … I even got to the point where I said, ‘I need to go to work and I have to stay awake.’ I dropped my son off at school a mile away and before I got home I’d have to pull over and take a nap. And I was ashamed. And I was doing the best I could, and I was a great mother, but it was killing me.”
Days later, Blair told Vanity Fair that she sees “no tragedy” in her diagnosis. On the contrary, she said, she’s now “happy” and hopes to help others dealing with their symptoms.
She’s serving lemonade with a smile!
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