‘modern Family' Star Julie Bowen Thought She Was ‘gonna Die’ After Learning She Needed A Pacemaker At Age 29

At property 29, Julie Bowen sewage a pacemaker.

The "Modern Family" alum made nan revelation to big Michael Rosenbaum during a caller quality connected his podcast, "Inside of You." 

The 55-year-old shared that she struggles pinch sick sinus syndrome, a bosom hit upset that, according to Mayo Clinic, causes "slow heartbeats, pauses aliases irregular heartbeats."

"I person a debased resting bosom rate," nan character said connected nan podcast, noting her pacemaker is "set truthful that it can’t spell beneath 45." Bowen told Rosenbaum that, earlier receiving a pacemaker, her resting bosom complaint was successful nan 30s.

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At property 29, "Modern Family" alum Julie Bowen, now 55, needed a pacemaker. (Rich Polk/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

According to nan Cleveland Clinic, nan mean bosom complaint for big women is 78 to 82 thumps per minute. The "normal" scope is betwixt 60 to 100 thumps per minute, it noted. According to nan outlet, aggregate factors, specified arsenic hormones, workout and different manner choices tin impact your bosom rate.

"I was a runner each passim precocious school," Bowen explained. "And past I was really a competitory runner. And I ever had a really debased bosom rate. And my sister was successful med school. So, I conjecture I had conscionable gotten retired of assemblage maybe. … At that clip successful her life, I conjecture she ever carried astir a stethoscope.

"We were connected vacation, and she was like, ‘I want to perceive to this,’" Bowen recalled. "And she listened to my heart, and she was like, ‘That is not what they've been telling you. And it's not runner's bosom aliases whatever. … You request to go to a cardiologist immediately.’"

Julie Bowen and Tom Cavanaugh, stars of nan TV show "Ed." (Gregory Pace/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Bowen’s sister, Annie Luetkemeyer, had conscionable graduated from aesculapian school. She refused to springiness up connected nan issue. Still, Bowen would insist to her concerned related that "I’m fine."

A period later, Bowen changeable nan aviator section of the TV bid "Ed," which premiered successful 2000.

"I changeable nan pilot of ‘Ed’ and instantly had to spell get a pacemaker afterwards," said Bowen. "I was like, 'Oh my God. My life is over. This is truthful weird. I'm gonna die.' I don't cognize what I thought it was because I was 29."

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"Modern Family" aired from 2009 to 2020. (Gregory Pace/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

"You’re fortunate you didn't dice earlier that," said Rosenbaum.

"They said I wouldn't astir apt dice of it, but I'd commencement passing out," she explained. "There was a vague emotion … whenever I was relaxed, really relaxed, I'd be, like, watching TV aliases [a] movie. It felt for illustration I'd been holding my activity for a while, that emotion of, like, lightheadedness. 

"And they said, 'You're gonna beryllium driving a car, and you're gonna walk out, and you're gonna termination somebody.' And I was like, ‘Oh, well, past springiness maine nan g-----n pacemaker.’"

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Julie Bowen sometimes forgets astir having a pacemaker. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

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According to Bowen, surgeons went successful done her armpit. Over nan years, she has had to switch nan batteries astir 3 times.

"I hide astir it each nan time," Bowen said of having a pacemaker.