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RHOBH star Yolanda Foster uses Stem Cells to fight Lyme disease

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By LAUREL BROWN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 22:53 GMT, 7 May 2015 | UPDATED: 22:59 GMT, 7 May 2015

For close to three years, Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster has dealt with chronic Lyme disease.

Based on an Instagram photo the 51-year-old former model posted on Thursday, however, she has not given up hope of recovery.

‘Sweet dreams to my new stem-cells, may they strengthen my immune system to destroy the silent killer inside of me and turn this Mess into a Message,’ model Gigi Hadid’s mother wrote as a caption.

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