Lara Spencer is on the mend!
The “Good Morning America” co-anchor, 55, revealed why she’s been absent from this system this week — and it has to do with a painful well being battle.
Spencer took to social media on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and received actual together with her followers. Posting one picture displaying each of her toes all bandaged up, the beloved TV host introduced she underwent double surgical procedure.
“If I look a little groggy it’s thanks to this guy who just gave me a new pair of boots (frame 2-wish they were cowboy boots but that will come in about 6 weeks hopefully),” she captioned the photographs, which included one other of Spencer smiling together with her surgeon.
She defined that one surgical procedure was to reverse an operation she had beforehand, whereas the opposite was to restore an previous harm from school.
“My right foot was easy-just had plate removed from surgery last year,” Spencer wrote. “The left is a bigger deal from a very old college diving injury. I was doing a reverse one and a half and hit the board, shattering toes and joints.”
The morning present veteran continued, “Back then they said there was nothing you could do except tape it, let it heal, and live with the pain,” earlier than singing her physician’s praises and cracking a joke.
“Today there are much better options, thanks to surgeons like Dr Marty O’Malley at HSS,” she added. “These boots were made for walkin……”
A number of of Spencer’s colleagues despatched her effectively needs for a speedy restoration.
“Wow! Well no doubt you’ll be twirling in no time!” ABC Information’ “20/20” co-anchor Deborah Roberts commented.
“Jesus!!! Who does both feet at the same time???? My girl, that’s who! So tough! Sending u speedy love to fast recovery! We’ve got dancing to do,” wrote the previous medical chief of “GMA,” Dr. Jennifer Ashton.
“Sweetie!! Feel better soon,” added the present’s chief enterprise, economics, and expertise correspondent Rebecca Jarvis.
In 2023, Spencer shared that O’Malley operated on her foot for a torn plantar plate and ligament that was “slowly getting worse and worse.”
The tv star is a graduate of Pennsylvania State College. She attended the faculty on an athletic scholarship for springboard and platform diving and was a nationally ranked aggressive diver, per Day by day Mail.
Throughout her senior yr in 1991, Spencer was named an All-American Athlete and graduated together with her diploma in broadcast journalism.
Apart from “GMA,” Spencer’s credit embody “Nightline,” “The Insider,” CBS’ “The Early Show,” “Antiques Roadshow” and extra.
It’s unclear when she can be again on “GMA.”
The Submit reached out to the present for remark.
