Modern Family Star Details Shock Health Battle while she reveals that she has Pacemaker 29 years old
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Modern family Julie Bowen Unveiled that she was equipped with a pacemaker just 29 after her sister saw that she had a very low heartbeat.
The actress, 55, who portrayed Claire Dunphy from 2009 to 2020 on the ABC Sitcom, opened about her health problems during a performance in the Inside of You -Podcast with Michael Rosenbaum.
During the episode, which was broadcast on July 1, Julie spoke frankly about struggling with the heart rhythm disorder sick sinus syndrome, caused by increased activity in her vagus nerve, a condition called Hypervagotonia.
She explained that it was her sister, Annie Luetkemeyer, who initially set her the condition.
Julie remembered that Annie had just graduated from the medical school when she stopped listening to her heart.
“She was in her life at the time when she, I think, had always taken a stethoscope. And we were on vacation and she said, “I want to listen to this.”
“She had something like that:” That’s not what they told you, and it’s not the heart of the runner or whatever. That means you have to go to a cardiologist. ” ‘
According to Julie, her sister would not let it go. I had something like that: “It’s going well.” She wouldn’t let it go. ‘

Julie Bowen has revealed that she was equipped with a pacemaker at just 29

She explained that it was her sister, Annie Luetkemeyer, who initially set her the condition.
A month later, after filming the pilot of Ed, who premiered in 2000, Julie started to fit a pacemaker.
“I thought:” Oh my God. My life is over. This is so weird. I’m dying. “I don’t know what I thought it was because I was 29. ‘
“You are lucky that you didn’t died for that,” Michael noted, 52.
“They said I would probably not die from it, but I would faint,” Julie replied. ‘There was a vague feeling … When I was relaxed, really relaxed, I would watch TV or movie.
“It felt like I had withheld my breath for a while, that feeling of light headness.”
The normal heart rate for women, according to the Cleveland Clinic, is between 60 and 100 beats per minute.
Before her pacemaker was mounted, Julie’s resting heartbeat was in the 1930s.
Julie added that, despite the fact that the batteries are replaced three times, she often forgets that she has a pacemaker at all.

Julie in the movie Happy Gilmore from 1996 – four years before she had mounted her pacemaker

Julie portrayed Claire Dunphy on the ABC Sitcom from 2009 to 2020
This is not the first time that Julie has spoken frankly about her health.
In 2023, the actress Play frankly about getting plastic surgery As soon as her hit TV program Modern Family ended in 2020.
“I finally got hold of the stomach,” Julie revealed, holding her belly during an appearance on the view.
“Finally, after all those years. They tore it open, the twins just torn it, “she said referring to her 16-year-old sons Gus and John.
“And I said:” As soon as the modern family is ready … I will get it solved. “But it was 11 years old! So 11 years later we wrapped on Friday and Monday that they went inside and they love a sneaker, “said Julie.
Julie previously noticed that she was the age of 39 and was pregnant with twins when she filmed the Pilot episode of Modern Family.
The actress also has the 18-year-old son Oliver with her ex-husband Scott Phillips.
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