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Last month, Jaime King revealed to fans on social media her now 14-month-old son, Leo Thames, underwent “a major heart surgery” — a time she remembers as “terrifying and traumatic for us as parents, for our family.”
Now King tells PEOPLE her baby boy is “doing amazing,” and the reason she felt compelled to share her family’s story is because she “knew how traumatic the experience was, how much [post-traumatic stress disorder] I had afterwards, and the trauma that I was experiencing before it.”
“It’s because I didn’t know anybody that had gone through it and I didn’t have people to talk to,” says King, who hosted the WEI Beauty Detoxifying Skincare Line luncheon, along with Jamie Chung in Hollywood on Wednesday.