Jimmy Kimmel Shares Well being Replace on Son Billy After Open Coronary heart Surgical procedure

Jimmy Kimmel is talking out about his son Billy’s well being.

In an interview with Leisure Tonight, revealed Monday, July 8, the Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! host, 56, opened up about how his 7-year-old son William “Billy” John was doing following his third open coronary heart surgical procedure in Might.

“Billy’s doing nice. He had open-heart surgical procedure; he is acquired the scars and every thing, however he is simply mentally proper again the place he was which is loopy,” Kimmel informed the outlet of his son, who was born in 2017 with a congenital coronary heart illness.

“Bodily, , we’re gonna need to watch out with him for a few months, however he is doing very well,” he continued.

Opening up in regards to the resilience of youngsters, Kimmel added, “They’re product of rubber, , all people says that youngsters are so resilient and the medical doctors truly defined it to me which I do not know why it by no means occurred to me earlier than as a result of they’re nonetheless rising.”

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In Might, Kimmel — who shares Billy and daughter Jane, 9, with spouse Molly McNearney, in addition to daughter Katie, 32, and son Kevin, 30, along with his first spouse Gina Maddy — posted a snap of Billy smiling in a hospital mattress.

He then revealed within the caption that Billy had efficiently undergone his third open coronary heart surgical procedure.

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“This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open coronary heart surgical procedure,” he wrote on the time, calling it a “humbling expertise.”

“We went into this expertise with plenty of optimism and practically as a lot worry and got here out with a brand new valve inside a contented, wholesome child,” Kimmel continued, earlier than thanking medical employees, strangers, household and pals.

The daddy of 4 added, “Thanks to my spouse Molly for being stronger than is cheap for any Mother to be and Billy, you’re the hardest (and funniest) 7 year-old we all know.”