Jimmy Kimmel provides update on son Billy five years after his life-saving surgeries: ‘He’s doing great…he’s a very funny kid’
More than five years after his son Billy underwent lifesaving operations, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has offered fans an update on his son’s health.
Kimmel, 54, and his wife Molly McNearney welcomed Billy in April 2017, although just hours after he was born Billy was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF).
Billy underwent his first successful surgery just three days after he was born, with Kimmel providing an update to E! at the 2022 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Update: More than five years after his son Billy underwent lifesaving operations, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has offered fans an update on his son’s health
‘He is doing very well. He’s a very funny kid. He loves Spider-Man, jumping on my head and doing everything we tell him not to do,” Kimmel began.
He said Billy was fine because Children’s Hospital Los Angeles “fixed his heart.”
“The heart is a super important part of the body, so we’re very lucky to live in a city that has a great hospital and great doctors, and I think it’s important to support the children’s hospital,” he said. added Kimmel.
Brilliant: “He is doing very well. He’s a very funny kid. He loves Spider-Man, jumping on my head and doing all the things we tell him not to do,’ Kimmel began.
“They fixed them really well, so we’re very grateful for that,” Kimmel added, although her son isn’t quite out of his medical troubles.
“He still needs open heart surgery, but he is doing very well. I tried to explain the heart surgery to him because he has a little scar in the center of his chest and he has almost no interest,” Kimmel added.
There is no indication when Billy will have to undergo open heart surgery at this time.
Grateful: ‘They fixed them up really well, so we’re very grateful,’ Kimmel added, although her son isn’t quite over his medical issues
Farrot’s tetralogy is a rare congenital heart defect, which doctors first noticed with Billy due to his purplish appearance – dubbed cyanosis – just hours after he was born.
The condition is found in only 0.02 to 0.04% of births, or about 200 to 400 cases per million live births.
One of the most notable instances of TOF aside from Billy is that of snowboarding legend Shaun White, who was born with TOF.
Rare: Farrot’s tetralogy is a rare congenital heart defect, which doctors first noticed with Billy due to his purplish appearance – dubbed cyanosis – just hours after he was born
Kimmel brought her son onto the show when he was just eight months old at the end of 2017, showing the crowd how well he was doing.
Kimmel also shares eight-year-old daughter Jane with McNearny, who he started dating in October 2009.
They got engaged in August 2012 and married in July 2013.
Son: Kimmel brought her son on the show when he was just eight months old at the end of 2017, showing the crowd how well he was doing
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