Bianca King opens up about depression after shoulder surgery in 2021

Bianca King has opened up about depression after she underwent shoulder surgery back in 2021.

Sharing an Instagram video of her progress since last year, Bianca said she was diagnosed with “joint instability and a split in my biceps anchor with calcific tendonitis.”

“This is me starting from zero and gaining back my strength [and] flexibility,” she wrote. “In July 2021, I had shoulder surgery called biceps tenodesis to fix a dislocating shoulder that was causing daily pain.”

Bianca said she felt down that she couldn’t do things as normally as before due to the procedure.

“I was in so much pain after surgery and slept on a stack of [five] pillows for [three] months. I felt so weak and skinny,” she wrote.

“I was depressed being isolated at home during the peak of the pandemic, not being able to bathe myself properly or cook my own food, mostly laying in bed feeling down and crying to my friends on the phone.”

After having to stop yoga for a year, Bianca said she now feels “almost back to normal but extremely grateful for having gone through that horrifying experience of joint surgery.”

Apart from her doctors, who once worked with the Australian rugby team, and REBEL coach Kat Da Roza, Bianca has her husband Ralph Wintle to thank.

“The best part of it all was my bond with my husband became stronger as he stepped up to take care of me when I couldn’t take care of myself," she wrote.

Bianca and Ralph tied the knot in their own living room in Sydney, Australia last June 2021. —Franchesca Viernes/KG, GMA News