Biju Phillips in hospital, looking for kidney donor: "I need help"

Bijou Phillips has issued an urgent appeal for help in finding a living kidney donor.After an organ transplant in 2017 left her with "many complications", the actress was hospitalized and needed a new kidney.

Bijou Phillips hospitalized and looking for kidney donor: 'I need help' The actress received a kidney transplant in 2017, but said she has had "a lot of difficulties" since then.By Ryan Coleman Ryan Coleman Ryan Coleman is a columnist for Entertainment Weekly with previous posts in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.Awards Viewing Party in Hollywood in 2024. Credit: Elyse Jankowski/Getty Bijou Phillips has made a plea for help as she battles kidney disease.“I need help getting a kidney,” the Almost Famous actress wrote in a post she shared on Instagram Wednesday. In several photos of Phillips with her 11-year-old daughter, Fianna, she pleaded, “As a friend, sister, aunt, and most importantly, single mother to an amazing, strong daughter. I need a kidney.”In the final slide of her three-part series, titled “My Story,” Phillips, 45, explained how she was “born with an unstable kidney and spent the first three months of her life in the NICU on dialysis: “In 2017, I received an amazing gift of a kidney from a dear friend. This transplant gave me 8 precious years to be a mother to my daughter, but since then Phillips has been battling a disease called the BK virus,” which the UW School of Medicine and PublicHealth describes as a virus that most people who work full-time fight off their immune system.Symptoms of the virus can include fever, fainting and muscle fatigue.Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative of Phillips.Our daughter will have a mother100% keeping her healthy.Bijou Phillips at Olympus Fashion Week in New York in 2005. Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic The daughter of Mamas & The Papas singer-songwriter John Phillips and South African singer Geneviève Waïte, Phillips was best known as New York's "original New York girl." The 19-year-old singer, who later became known for her roles in films like Almost Famous and Bully, hasflooded the comments section of her post on Wednesday, with Paris Hilton writing, "I love you so much sister.Sending you so much love, light and strength" and her sister Nicky adds: "I love you Bij!"Close Read more: Celebrities and celebrity health Leave a comment