Bella Hadid Returns to Paris Fashion Week Runway Following Hospitalization

Bella Hadid is back in the saddle.

The model and Orebella founder, 28, returned to the runway during Paris Fashion Week after her recent hospitalization for Lyme disease.

Hadid walked the Saint Laurent runway on Sept. 29 — held in a beautiful garden scene with the Eiffel Tower as the backdrop — wearing a translucent backward trench coat from the summer 2026 collection. Her look was accessorized with huge earrings and oversize sunglasses. Vogue captured the moment of her runway walk and shared it to Instagram during the show.

According to the show notes, “In a time when dialogue is fading, style becomes a form of discourse – not one that imposes, but one that connects and adds nuance. Where words divide, the Saint Laurent aesthetic creates space to breathe and invent new analogies. [Creative director] Anthony Vaccarello’s Summer 2026 collection embodies this vision. In a cinematic atmosphere, the Saint Laurent woman is both heroine and classic, singular and multifaceted.”

Her appearance comes just days after she was spotted in the streets of Paris looking cool and chic in a brown trench coat and black oval sunglasses and carrying a Coach bag. Around the same time as the outing, she posted a photo of herself getting her “stamina back” on a treadmill on her “first day in the gym in a long time.”

Hadid, who was diagnosed with Lyme disease at 16, first updated fans on the state of her health on Sept. 17, sharing photos from a hospital bed to her Instagram with the caption, “I’m sorry I always go MIA I love you guys.”

Her mother, Yolanda Hadid, shared further insight on her daughter’s condition with a series of Instagram photos of her youngest daughter connected to tubes.

“As you will understand, watching my Bella struggle in silence has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me,” wrote The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who was also diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012. She then praised her daughter for being a “warrior” during the difficult time, which she called an “unknown hell.”

“To my beautiful Bellita: You are relentless and courageous. No child is supposed to suffer in their body with an incurable chronic disease,” she continued. “I admire your bravery and your willingness to keep fighting for health despite the failing protocols and countless setbacks you have faced. There simply aren’t words big enough for the darkness, the pain, and the unknown hell you’ve lived through since your diagnosis in 2013. You didn’t really live, you learned how to exist inside the jail of your own paralyzed brain.”

She continued in her caption: “You have fought through another month of treatment and I know god is good, miracles do happen everyday 🙏 I pray for your speedy recovery my love. This disease has brought us to our knees, but we always get back up. We will continue to fight for better days together. You are a survivor… I love you so much my badass Warrior.” 

Lyme disease is caused by the borrelia bacteria, which is usually transmitted to humans through the bite of a black-legged tick, also known as a deer tick. In severe cases it can spread to the nervous system, called neurological Lyme.

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In 2020, Hadid went on Instagram to point out the nearly 30 common symptoms she experiences on the daily, including headaches, brain fog, insomnia and a sensitivity to light and noise. She also flagged anxiety, confusion, nausea, disordered eating, joint pain and weight gain and loss.

Hadid recently took a break from modeling to quietly focus on her physical and mental health (in August 2023, she shared on social media that she was “finally healthy” after “100+ days of Lyme, chronic disease, [co-infection] treatment [and] almost 15 years of invisible suffering”). The diagnosis has also stopped her from pursuing riding horses professionally.

In the time since, she’s made only a couple runway appearances, including at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in November 2024 and in Saint Laurent’s Paris show in March this year.

In her 2016 Global Lyme Alliance gala speech, Hadid admitted that “life isn’t always what it looks like on the outside” amid her health struggles. “And the hardest part of this journey is to be judged by the way you look instead of the way you feel.”