Bristol Palin is looking into ways to fix her facial paralysis.
Bristol, 35, who is the daughter of Sarah Palin and Todd Palin, opened up about her medical condition, which started in January 2025, via Instagram on Monday, March 9. “I’m going to have a consultation today with a plastic surgeon in Austin,” she explained. “I’ve read that she specializes in facial paralysis type stuff so we’ll see what she says.”
Bristol asked for “prayers” because the doctor might be able to help with her eye, which “closes” when she smiles or is “expressive.”
“I don’t really care about my crooked mouth but my eye — so embarrassing to me,” she said. “I feel like I should wear an eyepatch or something.”
Bristol continued, “It looks crazy and I just feel like I can’t even smile because it just closes. So maybe she can do some Botox or maybe there’s some options with surgery.” Bristol added that the doctor might even be able to help with “the overall symmetry” of her face.
The Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp star added that while she was recently visiting her family in Alaska, she met with another specialist who “does all of [her] nerve blocks to help with [her] face.”
Following her appointment, Bristol said that it “went well” and she would share more updates “later.”
In January 2025, Bristol detailed how her facial paralysis started with “a little weird sensation.”
“My mouth was pulling this way and it just felt a little off,” she explained. “So I went, looked in the mirror. I’m like ‘Wow. This is looking a little weird.’”
“I feel like everything is pulling to the left,” she added. By the end of the day, the left side of her face was having “delayed” movements.
“Within a couple hours, the entire left side of my face was numb and just paralyzed,” Bristol shared, noting that she had “no movement” on that half of her face. “Couldn’t really blink my eye,” she added.
She also revealed that her doctors believed she had a “case of Bell’s palsy maybe brought on by stress or lack of sleep.” According to Mayo Clinic, Bell’s palsy is a sudden, temporary paralysis that causes muscle weakness on one side of the face.
