Bijou Phillips Receives Kidney Transplant After Urgent Public Donor Search
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Jaeden Pinder
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Bijou Phillips, former actress and model, has received a life-saving kidney transplant five months after making an urgent public plea for a donor. She had been on dialysis and hospitalized at UCLA due to complications from a previous 2017 transplant. Her brother, Aron Wilson, donated his kidney to another patient in need. Phillips expressed deep gratitude on Instagram to everyone who came forward to be tested as potential donors, and thanked her family and UCLA doctors whom she called her "heroes."
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· 2 pulledI am beyond beyond grateful to everyone who rushed into help me, get checked to donate, you are all hero's [sic]!
She thanked her family and the doctors at UCLA calling them her 'heroes' throughout the life-saving procedure.
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