We love Ilona Maher. She’s strong, beautiful, and a tremendous champion of body positivity and loving yourself. Ilona is also the kind of person who doesn’t take herself too seriously. Her incredible rugby-playing skills took her all the way to the Paris Olympics in 2024. Her appearance at the games led to a stint on Dancing With The Stars. All along, Ilona kept a positive attitude and a fantastic sense of humor. Now that DWTS is over, she’s back on the field. A recent injury left Ilona Maher with two black eyes and a lot of new material to joke about.
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Ilona Maher Made Fun Of Her Injury On Instagram
She captioned the video, “I’m just assuming this is how today will go.”
Ilona then spoke to the camera and asked people to stop fighting over her because there was “enough of me to go around.”
She then pretended to answer someone off-camera and said, “I am a model.”
“They’re obsessed,” Ilona laughed.
A fan pointed out, “Speaking from a makeup artist’s point of view, not only have you blossomed the prettiest colors, just sharing your bruise is great for all our casualty reference folders so thank you! X”
But from the looks of her injury, Ilona Maher probably wasn’t laughing when it happened. Her nose appears swollen, and she has bruising under both eyes. A few days before, she posted a photo with blood on her shirt, but a smile on her face. She captioned it, “All good, everyone. Just a little knock.”
The injury looked familiar to this athlete, who wrote, “Ouch. Assuming given your sport that this is not the first time, how many times have you broken it now?” Signed, an old field hockey/lax player who broke her nose, passed out, and said, “Put me back in coach…with a tampon in my nose.”
This story’s featured image is by Dan Mullan/Getty Images.
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