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Bristol Palin is actively seeking solutions for her facial paralysis.
The 35-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin and Todd Palin shared insights about her condition, which began in January 2025, through an Instagram update on Monday, March 9. “I have a consultation scheduled today with a plastic surgeon in Austin,” she revealed. “I’ve heard she specializes in facial paralysis, so I’m hopeful she can offer some guidance.”
Bristol requested “prayers” in her quest for help, particularly concerning her eye, which tends to “close” when she smiles or shows expression.
“I’m not overly concerned about my crooked mouth, but my eye—it’s really embarrassing for me,” she confessed. “Sometimes I feel like wearing an eyepatch might be the solution.”
For nearly a year, Bristol Palin has been dealing with this perplexing facial paralysis. “If anyone is curious, today marks Day 323 of my face being paralyzed,” she mentioned in a video she posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday, January 3. “It’s not looking promising.” She went on to say, “This is what it looks like. […]”
Bristol continued, “It looks crazy and I just feel like I can’t even smile because it just closes. So maybe she can do some Botox or maybe there’s some options with surgery.” Bristol added that the doctor might even be able to help with “the overall symmetry” of her face.
The Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp star added that while she was recently visiting her family in Alaska, she met with another specialist who “does all of [her] nerve blocks to help with [her] face.”
Following her appointment, Bristol said that it “went well” and she would share more updates “later.”
In January 2025, Bristol detailed how her facial paralysis started with “a little weird sensation.”
“My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off,” she explained. “So I went, looked in the mirror. I’m like ‘Wow. This is looking a little weird.’”
“I feel like everything is pulling to the left,” she added. By the end of the day, the left side of her face was having “delayed” movements.
Courtesy of Bristol Palin/Instagram Bristol Palin has been dealing with a case of facial paralysis. “I woke up nine days ago with a weird little sensation in my face,” Palin, 34, said in a Wednesday, January 29, Instagram Story video. “My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off. So, I […]
“Within a couple hours, the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed,” Bristol shared, noting that she had “no movement” on that half of her face. “Couldn’t really blink my eye,” she added.
She also revealed that her doctors believed she had a “case of Bell’s palsy maybe brought on by stress or lack of sleep.” According to Mayo Clinic, Bell’s palsy is a sudden, temporary paralysis that causes muscle weakness on one side of the face.