Lara Spencer Returns to 'GMA' After Major Surgery With Health Update
Lara Spencer is ready to get back into her usual day-to-day life, offering a brief health update in conversation with a Good Morning America co-star.
On Friday, Dec. 13, just two days after she told fans on social media that she had undergone double foot surgery, the ABC personality rejoined co-anchor George Stephanopoulos after taking time off earlier in the week to have the procedure.
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"Yes, just kicking back, you know, relaxing," she told Stephanopoulos. "Ah, yes, I feel fine. Thank you, George, for asking."
"All is well," Spencer, 55, declared, reassuring her co-host–and viewers who saw her initial post about her "new pair of boots," which she shared to Instagram earlier this week.
"If I look a little groggy it's thanks to this guy who just gave me a new pair of boots," she joked in the caption of her Dec. 11 upload to the picture-sharing platform. "Wish they were cowboy boots but that will come in about 6 weeks hopefully," she added next to the selfie of her and her doctor.
In a subsequent slide, Spencer posted a picture of her legs wrapped in gauze and ace bandages and stabilized by two different styles of orthopedic boots.
"My right foot was easy," she stated in the caption, explaining she "just had [a] plate removed from surgery last year," which she had previously said was to address a torn plantar plate and ligament that had been "slowly getting worse and worse."
Her left foot was a little more complicated, as she explained it as a corrective procedure for an injury she sustained while on the college dive team.
"I was doing a reverse one and a half and hit the board, shattering toes and joints," she recalled. "Back then they said there was nothing you could do except tape it, let it heal, and live with the pain. Today there are much better options."
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