Get a Peek into Selma Blair's World with her Behind the Scenes Photo Diary

When I was in the hospital in Chicago, @arttavee and @carolyngriffin came bearing gifts (my all time favorite @patmcgrathreal eyeliner, I will never go without now💋). I got to play with wigs and makeup and we laughed at my horrendous application of contour. Seen here. Days and days of the same. And then the laughter. Thank you friends. ❤️

Photo: Selma Blair

I’ve always wanted to be a great rider. Begging my mom for lessons as a kid, but I showed no promise and she was a working mom. A few lessons and memorable summers at riding camp. When I was old enough to drive myself, I did. I rode and soon enough was a grown amateur without a horse and a track record of falls and forgetting courses and developing mimicking strategies. When I bought Nibbles three years ago, it was my biggest investment in myself. A sober self with increasingly unremitting exhaustion. I couldn’t feel my bum or left leg on my horse. The proprioception issues, inability to sit still, spasms, twitches. Jerks. Dystonia increased. I just laughed and thought getting older is impossible! But it was ms and it got too big and I had to take a break until now. I am at the beginning. Still. And I cannot stop smiling. I cannot. When I am at the barn. I finally have the white unicorn I cannot believe is in my life and I want to rise to the occasion.

Photo: Selma Blair

As you may know, I wouldn’t be able to get around and enjoy time with my son and family if I didn’t have this lifechanging, and amazing #mobilityaid. Raising awareness for @the_alinker_world and what is happening with crowdfunding in this community brings me so much life. I am asked every day I go out about this invention from #bealink (#barbaraalink) and people are amazed.

Photo: Selma Blair

I am beyond pleased and proud to have discovery+ be the home for my film ‘debut’ and for believing in the power of storytelling as a way to connect us all. I may be the subject of this film but my hope is that everyone sees themselves in it and finds some strength and joy they may not have known they had.

Photo: Selma Blair