Above is a photo of the cover of Yolanda Hadid’s memoir, which I assume is not written yet because it’s not out until next year. It was smart of her to put a husky puppy on the cover with her because your eye just goes to that beautiful animal and you want to open the book for more, which is so illogical but puppies. This is not Yolanda’s dog and according to her Instagram she was just puppy sitting. There are more photos of furballs below to get you through this post. Yolanda is currently in Tahiti, where she is posting bikini photos which look vaguely Photoshopped (I’m sure her body is great but I side-eye her waist in that pic in front of the ocean) and recovering from being fired from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, if rumors are to be believed. In Touch reported that producers were telling her to stop focusing on her lyme disease because “The viewers are tired of hearing about it.” Instead they reportedly gave her an ultimatum that “her storyline this season will be looking for love since she is now single.” If she’s truly as sick as she seems, that sounds pretty dumb but they have to go with what people will watch I guess.

Yolanda has been accused of faking her illness, of having Munchausen and Munchausen by proxy for claiming her children have lyme too, and of playing it up for the cameras and social media. So now she’s putting out a book to further tell her side of the story. The folks at Reality Tea think the title is a dig at her co-stars on RHOBH, who have thrown shade her her and often discount her symptoms. Here’s the announcement from Bravo:

Yolanda Hadid’s battle with Lyme disease has been well documented over the last few seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Now the mother of Gigi and Bella Hadid is telling all in a brand-new memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease.

Yolanda spoke to The Daily Dish about her new book, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2017, and why she felt it was time to write it. “Once I started to uncover the mystery of chronic Lyme disease and the stigma around it, I felt a strong sense of obligation towards the millions of people suffering from this debilitating disease to share my journey and to be a voice for those who can’t be heard,” she says.

The title is most certainly a nod to accusations that came up during Season 6 of RHOBH that Yolanda might have Munchausen Syndrome, a mental disorder in which someone makes others believe he or she is sick by pretending to be ill, by purposely getting sick, or through self-injury, according to the Mayo Clinic.

“I would hope that anyone who watched or knows about my journey will take the time to read Believe Me as I truly hope it will educate and open people’s hearts in order to gain a much deeper respect and understanding of this journey,” Yolanda says. “The message here is really about how we can learn to be less judgmental and deal with chronically ill people in a more kind, compassionate and understanding way.”

Of course it is those already suffering from Lyme disease that Yolanda was thinking of when writing the book. “I have met so many debilitated and financially devastated patients, parents who’ve sold their homes in order to pay for their children’s treatment all while fighting to keep them alive. I documented my journey with photos, daily logs, lab results and short videos, because I wasn’t sure I would make it through alive, but I did. I am here to tell my story because we need a cure affordable for all.”

Yolanda says the memoir will contain information on every treatment she’s tried over the last five years — both the ones that helped and the ones that didn’t. “I was raised to blindly trust doctors, but learned I had to be my own health advocate,” she explains.

[From Bravo.TV]

I’ve had a lyme-type disorder and have had invisible illness so while I can very much relate to Yolanda’s plight that does not mean that I agree with the way she’s tried to “raise awareness.” She posts a lot of sickbed selfies, but she’s a former model, both her daughters are models and she’s on a reality show. That just goes with the territory, it doesn’t mean she’s faking or playing it up at all. Some people, often people who have been healthy all their lives, cannot grasp that someone can be extremely ill and still look ok or manage to fake it for a couple of hours. It seems like a double edged sword for Yolanda in that she can’t appear well or she’s accused of not really being sick and she can’t appear sick or she’s accused of wallowing or exaggerating. That’s kind of the nature of lyme, you can appear and feel ok one day and be on your ass the next. Of course she’s seeking every treatment possible, she has money, she feels horrible and she wants to get better but somehow that’s a strike against her too.

These shows rely on the women fighting and sniping at each other so it’s only expected that if one is sick the others are going to say she’s not really sick. They have to find reasons to hate each other. Lyme needs a better spokesperson than Yolanda but at least she’s making it more visible. Now let’s look at puppies.

??Baby sitting for the day…… #PuppyLove #Precious #FurryBaby

A photo posted by YOLANDA (@yolanda.hadid) on Apr 27, 2016 at 10:40am PDT

??Sunday morning love fest…….. #PuppyLove #Huskies

A photo posted by YOLANDA (@yolanda.hadid) on Apr 17, 2016 at 10:12am PDT

This photo makes it look like Yolanda went to Tahiti on the advance from her book.

??Thank you to @stmartinspress for publishing my book “BELIEVE ME” It took so much time, research, money and effort to get properly diagnosed…only to find out that there is no cure! It has been an eye opening experience. While I started to uncover the mystery of chronic neurological Lyme disease and the stigma around it, I felt a strong sense of obligation to share my journey with the millions of people suffering from this debilitating disease and world wide epidemic. It feels so good to finally be able to write and share with you the details of my treatments, diagnosis and the spiritual growth I acquired during the darkest days of my live while navigating the uncertainties in the maze of chronic invisible diseases………. #LymeDiseaseAwareness #WeMustFindACure #BELIEVEME Pre-orders available on Amazon, Link is in my bio

A photo posted by YOLANDA (@yolanda.hadid) on Jun 9, 2016 at 11:46am PDT