Zsa Zsa Gabor is rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties two days after her 99th birthday
Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to the emergency room on Monday after suffering from breathing difficulties.
The Hollywood star had celebrated her 99th birthday two days before, with her ninth husband Frederic von Anhalt telling TMZ that the actress was admitted into a Los Angeles hospital.
Von Anhalt has told the site that a doctor came to the couple's home and removed mucus from her throat but it was then decided she should be taken to hospital.
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Health issues: Zsa Zsa Gabor, pictured in August 2011, was rushed to the emergency room on Monday after suffering from breathing difficulties
TMZ write that Gabor has been diagnosed with a feeding tube-related lung infection and is scheduled to undergo surgery to have her breathing tube removed.
The Moulin Rouge actress, who hasn't been seen in public for years, was previously hospitalised after developing a severe throat infection in 2012.
A year earlier her right leg was amputated above the knee after doctors found an infection and antibiotics failed to cure it.
Hospitalised: The Hollywood star had celebrated her 99th birthday two days before, with her ninth husband Frederic von Anhalt (pictured with Gabor in 2003) telling TMZ that the actress was admitted into a LA hospital
Von Anhalt told the New York Post in 2012 that Gabor only realised her leg had been amputated 18 months after the event when she tried to sit up and saw it was missing.
He said she was unable to make the discovery herself because one hand is paralysed and the other is too short to reach.
He recalled her telling him: 'There is something missing' as the horror dawned on her.
In addition to not telling her about her leg, she 'doesn’t know she gets food through the tube', he said.
'It will only upset her. She was so glamorous always, and she is so vain,' he reasoned.
Reclusive: Gabor, who is rarely seen in public, has been diagnosed with a feeding tube-related lung infection and is scheduled to undergo surgery to have her breathing tube removed
Gabor has been in declining health since a car crash in 2002 and an accident in 2010 when she fell out of bed while trying to answer the telephone.
Last January her daughter Francesca Gabor Hilton - whose father was the late Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton - passed away in Los Angeles after suffering an 'apparent stroke/heart attack'.
Her representative Edward Lozzi revealed to RadarOnline that Francesca had been 'under extreme pressure' because she had been told by her stepfather, von Anhalt, that 'she would no longer be allowed in the house' to visit her elderly mother, who the rep said is 'suffering total dementia and cannot speak'.
Ill health: Gabor, pictured in her heyday in the film Lovely to Look At, has been in declining health since a car crash in 2002 and an accident in 2010 when she fell out of bed while trying to answer the telephone
She had previously clashed with Frederic over her mother's care and finances for years and is said to have spoken to her attorney on the phone hours before her death in a bid to make a plan of action about what to do about her mother.
Hungarian-born actress Gabor became a sex symbol in the 1950s and was known for her pithy comments on her colourful love life which has included nine marriages.
She once said: ‘I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house’.
Legendary: Hungarian-born actress Gabor became a sex symbol in the 1950s and was known for her pithy comments on her colourful love life which has included nine marriages
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