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Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
Elizabeth Taylor was put on a life support machine after suffering congestive heart failure, it was reported this evening.
The 76-year-old's condition was said to have deteriorated after she was initially diagnosed with pneumonia last week.
Her children were at her bedside and doctors warned she might not survive, said the U.S. publication National Enquirer.
But the following day she improved and the dual Oscar winner was breathing without medical help last night.
A source said: 'The doctors thought they were going to lose her. She's still very sick, but she's past the crisis.'
The actress, a mother of three who adopted a fourth child with Richard Burton, was taken to hospital on July 15 when flu turned into pneumonia.
Miss Taylor, who has been married and divorced eight times and was made an honorary dame by the Queen in 2000, has been plagued by ill-health.
She suffers from diabetes and congestive heart failure - where the heart is too weak to pump blood around the body - has had both hips replaced and had a benign brain tumour removed in 1997.
She is confined to a wheelchair because of osteoporosis.
But she has fought hard to regain her health in recent years, with some observers even suggesting she has hopes of a film comeback.
In 2006 she went on the U.S. chat show Larry King Live to dismiss claims that she had Alzheimer's and was close to death.
Last year she was photographed swimming with sharks off the coast of Hawaii.
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
Wow, how sad. Reading about her health, she's been through so much!
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
At 1st I read this at "Liv Tyler"....
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| Posted 7/31/08 11:26 AM |
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
I am not ready for her to go. She represent so much glamour and beauty.
I love how they said she was a mother of 3 kids then adopted a 4th one. I guess she is not the mom of the adopted kid, right?
What is up with that lately that the media needs to make this distinction in Hollywood about biological children vs. adopted ones? Like they are some kind of different breed. I feel they are putting celebrities that adopted in a special bag as they "saved" a child. Come on!!! The 4th kid is her kid too.
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
Posted by Mssissy
At 1st I read this at "Liv Tyler"....
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OMG so did I
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| Posted 7/31/08 12:24 PM |
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chelle
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
Awe, this is just so sad
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Re: Liz Taylor 'is put on life support after heart failure'
Posted by smdl
I am not ready for her to go. She represent so much glamour and beauty.
I love how they said she was a mother of 3 kids then adopted a 4th one. I guess she is not the mom of the adopted kid, right?
What is up with that lately that the media needs to make this distinction in Hollywood about biological children vs. adopted ones? Like they are some kind of different breed. I feel they are putting celebrities that adopted in a special bag as they "saved" a child. Come on!!! The 4th kid is her kid too.
 Very well said. I can't agree more. I am sure Liz Taylor would be mad knowing they are making her 4th child sound like a second class child. I hope she gets well and gives them hel l
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