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<\/p>\nLegal eagle-turned-television personality Star Jones is recovering in a New York City hospital after undergoing heart surgery earlier this week.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n The procedure was related to another surgery the former View<\/em> co-host had decades ago as a teenager.<\/p>\n \u201cOn Wednesday, March 17th, a pre-planned cardiac surgery was performed on Star Jones,\u201d <\/em>a statement from the rep read. \u201cThis recent surgery is a follow-up to the thoracic surgery she had 30 years ago. The procedure was successful and she is recovering well with her family. Star is grateful for everyone\u2019s thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Star, who had gastric bypass surgery in August 2003, has been Tweeting a lot about her faith in recent days:<\/p>\n \u201cBe blessed y\u2019all. Remember your greatest weapon is PRAYER because it is the key to heaven; but FAITH unlocks the door!\u201d<\/em> she wrote on her official Twitter page earlier this week. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that God is trying to tell me something\u2026& I plan to listen. My birthday is in 10 days\u2026so I\u2019m giving myself a special gift\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Star turns 48 on Wednesday, March 24.<\/p>\n Legal eagle-turned-television personality Star Jones is recovering in a New York City hospital after undergoing heart surgery earlier this week. The procedure was related to another surgery the former View co-host had decades ago as a teenager. \u201cOn Wednesday, March 17th, a pre-planned cardiac surgery was performed on Star Jones,\u201d a statement from the rep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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