Bristol Palin recently provided an update on her health journey, nearly a year after revealing her struggle with facial paralysis.

On Thursday, November 27, Palin, 35, took to her Instagram Stories to showcase a Thanksgiving outfit alongside her 5-year-old daughter, Sailor Grace Meyer, whom she co-parents with ex-fiancé Dakota Meyer.

“Black skinny jeans, black long sleeve top, my trusty denim shirt, and a vintage Louis Vuitton,” the former Teen Mom OG star described.

She went on to mention, “And still a crooked face,” alluding to her ongoing recovery from what doctors suspect might be Bell’s palsy. The Mayo Clinic describes Bell’s palsy as a condition characterized by sudden muscle weakness on one side of the face.

Bristol Palin shared a light-hearted note about her facial paralysis. “If I just keep my mouth shut, I look pretty normal, lol,” she quipped on her Instagram Story on Tuesday, February 4. “Maybe it’s a sign.” This update follows her initial revelation about her health condition nearly a week earlier. “I woke […]

Bristol, who is the oldest daughter of former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and ex-husband Todd Palin, first revealed her health battle in January.

“I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face,” she said via social media at the time. “My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off. So I went, looked in the mirror. I’m like ‘Wow. This is looking a little weird.’”

The Dancing With the Stars alum added, “Within a couple hours, the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed … Couldn’t really blink my eye. Definitely had no movement on [the left side] of my face. So crazy.”

Bristol said her doctors “ran tests, did a CT scan [and] put [her] on steroids,” as well as other medications.

“Nothing came back with all the results. They think it’s just a case of Bell’s palsy, maybe brought on by stress or lack of sleep. I’m not really sure. There’s nothing that I was super stressed out about, but I think it was brought on by stress,” she explained.

In February, Bristol shared that she had tried “everything imaginable” to treat her condition, but nothing seemed to work.

“I’m not sure what else I should do. But I’ve spent the last 35 days doing something every single day to try and fix this and nothing has helped so far. So, I’m not sure what the future holds,” she continued.

In another update that month, Palin said, “We’re on day 23 of this, which is absolutely insane. I can’t move the left side of my face at all. It’s really hard to blink, I can’t blow out a candle. I look crazy. Cannot believe it’s been over three weeks. I’ve been doing all the things. I’ve been doing acupuncture, lymphatic massage, oxygen chamber treatment, red light therapy, cutting out almost all of the processed foods, eliminating most caffeine — I’ll still have a cup of coffee in the morning.”

The road to recovery. Bristol Palin shared an update on her health with fans following her ninth breast reconstruction surgery last month. While answering fan questions on Thursday, February 23, via her Instagram Story, the former Teen Mom OG star, 32, was asked, “How are you healing post-surgery? All good?” Luckily, her update was a […]

Bristol’s condition did eventually improve, as she revealed in a July Q&A that her face was “probably 70 percent back to normal.”

“I feel like I’m handling it well,” she added. “I can’t look at pictures of myself [right now].”

Bristol continued, “It *could* be permanent, but I don’t think it will be. It is slowly improving. My doctor thinks it will be another three months before I’m *hopefully* back to normal.”