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Inside Bijou Phillips' Health Struggles as She Seeks 2nd Kidney Donor

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Even before Bijou Phillips revealed she needed a second kidney transplant, the actress had been open about her health struggles over the years. Phillips, who is the daughter of musicians John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, was born with underdeveloped kidneys. She required her first transplant in 2017. “I’m asking as a friend, a sister, an aunt, and, most importantly, a single mother to an incredible and brave daughter. I am in need of a kidney,” Phillips wrote via Instagram nearly a decade later. “In 2017, I received the incredible gift of a kidney from a dear friend.” Phillips recalled suffer...