“Bachelorette” contestant Cam Ayala underwent a leg amputation later this week, her latest post on social media revealed.
“Gotta lotta BROMENTUM with @ b.rapp #amputee #CAMputee #FAITHoverFEAR 🙏🏽✝️,” read the Instagram headline that accompanied a photo of Ayala in a hospital bed at Texas Medical Center, with much of the his right leg seemed to have been removed.
The reason for the procedure was lymphedema, a disease that Ayela, 33, has been suffering from for some time. The condition, according to the Mayo Clinic, is the result of the lymph vessels not draining the lymph nodes enough, resulting in a backup of fluid that causes swelling in the affected region of the body, usually the arms or legs.
The Texas native first appeared in season 15 of “The Bachelorette,” which premiered in 2019 and featured interior designer Hannah Brown as the program’s eligible single woman.
The former “Bachelorette” contest Cam Ayala suffered a leg amputation this week, revealed her latest post on Instagram.Instagram/@camronayala – Getty
In a recent interview, Ayala, who also appeared in the sixth season of “Bachelor in Paradise,” reflected on how her diagnosis seemed to take into account her final destiny as a contestant on “The Bachelorette.”
“In short, it started very well. I got the first rose before it was the first impression, and that had never happened before [on the show]”, recalled the sales director in a June 15 episode of the” Maybe God “podcast.
Ayala’s post also revealed a video in which the 33-year-old Texas native appears to be undergoing physical therapy.Instagram/@camronayala
“Honestly, when I was out there and I got the first rose I felt affirmed very quickly,” he continued. “And honestly, that was the curse. Because there was a very big target placed on my back among the men in the house. And about three weeks after the trip there, I decided to open up to the bachelorette party about my chronic disease, called lymphedema …
“When I opened up to her, some of the other guys at the mansion heard [it] I need to approach her after this conversation and basically accuse myself of having invented this story of medical sobs so that I could get what they called a “rose of pity.”
“And unfortunately the boys’ narrative was believed and they sent me home that night, ”he concluded.
Later, Ayala would compete in season 6 of “Bachelor in Paradise”. ABC via Getty Images
In another of Ayala’s recent posts on Instagram, shared four days ago, the self-proclaimed “king of the dance floor” appears in a video in which he appears to be preparing and going through a “last” day of exercise before amputation.
“LAST TIME I PUT ON and TAKE OFF A FULL compression sleeve 🦵🏾 … 23 years of love / hate” and “My FINAL workout with my God legs 🦵🏾 🦵🏾 #SweatCheck 🥵✅,” he says the text superimposed on the footage. .