Tiffani Thiessen has revealed that she needs a hip replacement after being diagnosed with hip dysplasia and discovering she has a torn labrum.
The 52-year-old actress discussed her condition during an appearance on the Breaking Bad with Tom Papa podcast. She said the diagnosis followed a second medical opinion.
“I have to get a hip replacement — I do,” Thiessen said. “I was a dancer when I was younger, which was a good thing, [and] I have a torn labrum, that’s one issue I have. Then, I found out, going to my second opinion, … I have hip dysplasia.”
Hip dysplasia occurs when the bones in the hip joint do not fit together properly. Thiessen said she believed her flexibility as a child may have contributed to the problems she is now experiencing.
“So, when I was very flexible as a young child has now caused my issue now,” she said. “I hear the hip replacements aren’t as bad as knee and shoulders [replacement procedures].”
She added that the pain had become severe enough to prevent her from taking part in some activities, including family games of pickleball with her husband, Brady Smith, and their children, Harper, 16, and Holt, 11.
“We play [as a family],” Thiessen said. “My doctor didn’t say it was pickleball, but it probably is not help[ful]. I have not been able to play in the last couple weeks ‘cause my hip’s been so bad.”
Thiessen said she often plays with her son, who began playing less than a year ago, and joked that he was now starting to beat her. “But I do have a bad hip,” she added.
She currently stars in Coven Academy, which premiered on Disney+ and Freeform last month.
