The 26-year-old conservationist, daughter of the legendary Steve Irwin, arrived in the US at the weekend for the annual Steve Irwin Gala. Yet hours after touching down in Las Vegas she suffered a ruptured appendix and was rushed into emergency surgery.

Bindi, who has built a strong following in her own right, took to Instagram yesterday to share a video from her hospital bed. In the clip, she said she was the “road to recovery”, while thanking doctors for their work.

While her appendix was being removed, doctors reportedly discovered another 14 lesions from endometriosis, a condition Bindi is known to suffer from. Those were also successfully removed, and a hernia that had developed after giving birth to her daughter, Grace, in 2021 was repaired.