Bijou Phillips has issued a public plea for assist as she battles kidney illness.

"I need assistance discovering a kidney," the Virtually Well-known actress wrote in submit shared to her shared to her Instagram on Wednesday.

Over a sequence of photographs of Phillips together with her 11-year-old daughter, Fianna, she pled, "I'm asking as a buddy, a sister, an aunt, and, most significantly, a single mom to an unimaginable and courageous daughter. I’m in want of a kidney."

On the final slide of her three-part submit, titled, "My story," Phillips, 45, defined how she was "born with underdeveloped kidneys and spent the primary three months of life within the NICU on dialysis: "In 2017, I acquired the unimaginable present of a kidney from a pricey buddy. That transplant gave me 8 treasured years to be a mom to my daughter – however I’ve had many problems since."

Phillips has struggled with a situation referred to as BK virus, which the UW Faculty of Medication and Public Well being defines as a typical virus that almost all people with usually functioning immune methods struggle off with out opposed results. However kidney transplant recipients are particularly inclined to the virus being activated, resulting from anti-rejection medicine given to organ recipients. Signs of the virus can embody fever, seizures, and muscle fatigue.

"I’m at present below care of Dr Anjay Rastogi at UCLA and again on dialysis," Phillips wrote. "Please assist me discover a dwelling donor in order that I can have extra time with my daughter, household, and mates. Time is of the essence."

Leisure Weekly has reached out to Phillips' consultant for remark.

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Phillips opened up about her preliminary want for a transplant in 2017.

"In an effort to heal her physique she has led a stress-free life with a vegan food plan, which ultimately wasn’t sufficient and she or he's been privately having dialysis," a rep for Phillips advised PEOPLE on the time. "She not too long ago came upon one in all her mates is a match and is optimistic that she could have a transplant quickly."

That transplant did come quickly — simply two months later. Danny Masterson, whom Phillips filed for divorce from in September 2023 amid his rape conviction that Could, shared an image of the previous couple holding fingers in hospital beds after the surgical procedure.

"My girl has been slowing dying for the previous 7 years of an incurable kidney illness. She was given the present of an encore by a tall angel. Our daughter could have a mom. We don’t take calmly how extremely lucky we’re. 100% profitable transplant," he wrote.

The daughter of Mamas & The Papas singer-songwriter John Phillips and South African singer Geneviève Waïte, Phillips gained notoriety as a New York Metropolis "it lady," gracing the duvet of Interview Journal in 1994, when she was solely 13. She later gained recognition for her performances in movies like Virtually Well-known and Bully.

Phillips' well-known mates flooded the remark part of her Wednesday submit, with Paris Hilton writing "Love you a lot sis. Sending you a lot love, gentle, and power," and her sister Nicky including, "Love you Bij!"

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