According to her mother, Bella had to give up on her dream of becoming a professional horse rider and participating in the Olympics due to the symptoms of the disease. The cause of lyme disease for Bella is suspected to be bitten by a tick back in childhood as she grew up in a horse ranch. Being one of the celebrities with rare disease, she had to a break from her profession. She said in the interviews that she was exhausted nearly all the time and could not get out of bed for 6 days. The illness also affected her memory and her brain would get all foggy. She also claims that it was a dark and the toughest time of her life. She had to take alternative medicines for the illness as she was intolerant to the antibiotics that are typically used to treat lyme disease.