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Hayden Panettiere Says Her Body ‘Ballooned' Days After Her Brother’s Death and Triggered ​​Agoraphobia (Exclusive)


Hayden Panettiere says she found herself "unrecognizable" after her body reacted to the stress of losing her younger brother Jansen in 2023 in her exclusive PEOPLE cover interview.

In the days after learning her only sibling, also an actor, had died at age 28 of an undiagnosed enlarged heart, she tells PEOPLE that her entire body began swelling up, and she was powerless to stop it. Panettiere has previously been open about the struggles she went through growing up on-camera —especially in 2006 after she was cast as the superhero cheerleader Claire Bennet in the hit series Heroes at 17. Everything for Panettiere changed for the better when she was introduced to celebrity trainer Marnie Alton, who helped the actress take back control of her physical health.

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