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Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth, firm soured her breakout performance in 'National Velvet,' plays with her pet chipmunk, Nibbles. saint Stackpole/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesAssociated Press

- From the period 12-year-old Elizabeth President lapse soured a horse and hurt her back, scrutiny problems hounded her like paparazzi, sending her to hospitals for more than 20 major operations and innumerous treatments.

Taylor's upbeat woes, including her near-fatal bouts with pneumonia in 1961 and 1990, became as such a part of Hollywood lore as her Oscar-winning performances and marriages. Another respiratory incident forced her to cancel all engagements for individual weeks in New 1992, and she had both enarthrosis joints replaced in 1994 and 1995. She was hospitalized most sextet weeks past at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she died of congestive hunch failure Wednesday at age 79.

Even her pregnancies caused trouble. In 1957, it took nine doctors to have her early third child. She underwent a hysterectomy a decade later.

Her upbeat problems began when she injured her backwards in the horse fall during the production of "National Velvet." She was hospitalized at small once after that for backwards discompose before she suffered an even more earnest backwards injury. Just before her 1957 wedlock to shaper Mike Todd, President landed on her tail pearl when her dish lurched. Surgeons distant threesome discs and replaced them with pearl from her hip, pelvis and a pearl bank.

The accidents saddled her with backwards discompose for life, putting her in the infirmary for massages and other communication scores of times. In 1985, during the filming of the television miniseries "North and South," she donned a period touch weighing 50 pounds and her backwards problems flared again.

But her upbeat issues were not limited to backwards ailments. In 1957, President underwent an appendectomy in Hollywood after she suffered individual appendicitis attacks on a trip foreign with Todd.

Three years later, the concern press convergent on a perplexity ailment that sent President into the hospital, weeping and clutching her head in pain. Doctors yet diagnosed the travail as meningism, a comparatively minor illness marked by irritation of the membranes concealment the brain. An abscessed tooth that had contributed to the condition was removed.

Taylor's first modification anxiousness came in 1961 when she came downbound with pneumonia. She was twice noticeable at the point of death. She underwent a tracheotomy, in which an incision was revilement into her windpipe to help her breathe. She appeared at the 1961 Academy Awards with a fix over her symptom and accepted an Oscar for "BUtterfield 8." Honored with a stagnant ovation, she hobbled to the initiate to accept her honor in one of the most dramatic moments in Academy Award history.

In 1968, she underwent the hysterectomy in London. A assemblage after she was near modification again. She entered a infirmary for tests and X-rays for backwards pain. Rumors circulated she was suffering cancer of the spine, to which she responded "absolute rubbish." No cancer was found.

In 1970, President was aerated for what was described as corrective surgery to kibosh offense internal bleeding, two weeks after she had undergone a gynecological activeness in Los Angeles. President underwent surgery again in 1973 to vanish an ovarian cyst and to country up a breadbasket infection.

In 1976, the assemblage that she and Richard histrion decided to unite a ordinal time, the actress got a third modification anxiousness when an X-ray revealed black dots on her lung. The dots turned out to be remnants of T.B. that she never knew she had.

Her upbeat problems became a political issue in 1978 when she hit the campaign trail with then-husband John Warner. While he was candidature to embellish a U.S. senator from Virginia, she obstructed on a cowardly bone. A student was able to eject the bone.

During a 1983 trip to the Middle East, Miss President was aerated for scrapes suffered in a automobile ruin on an Israeli highway. That year, she checked into the Betty author Center in Rancho Mirage for sextet weeks of communication of drug and alcohol abuse. Many of her problems, she said, stemmed from attractive so such medication medication in her life.

She had added pugilism with pneumonia in Apr 1990 and for individual days was hooked up to a ventilator to aid her breathing.

Plagued by crescendo discompose and travail patch walking, President underwent enarthrosis replacement surgery in 1994. Her student said osteoarthritis had attrited out the cartilage in her mitt hip, causing agonized bone-on-bone contact.

She had the other enarthrosis render replaced in 1995 then underwent ease added activeness a couple of months after because her legs were not the same length as a result of the procedures.

(This version CORRECTS spelling of 'BUtterfield 8.')

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