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Bikini model Annalise Braakensiek was admitted to the Concord Hospital Burns Unit in Sydney this week after her jumper caught on fire during a kitchen accident.
The 45-year-old took to her Instagram page to detail the terrifying ordeal and share a graphic photograph of the gruesome burn on her forearm.
Luckily the blonde beauty did not have to undergo surgery and is now at home recovering.
Terrifying: Bikini model Annalise Braakensiek was admitted to the Concord Hospital Burns Unit in Sydney this week after her jumper caught on fire during a kitchen accident
Ouch: The bikini model shared a photograph of the gruesome burn on her arm
Despite being in incredible pain, Annalise joked about the incident in a post to Instagram.
‘Got lit but not in a fun way!’ she wrote.
‘If it wasn’t for my leaping straight to the kitchen sink and turning on the tap pouring water over my jumper that went up in flames, I might not have had a face or hair or even a kitchen…’ she said in a separate post.
Upon receiving treatment at the Concord Burns Unit in Sydney’s west, she expressed relief on not having to undergo plastic surgery.
She also thanked the hospital’s medical staff for looking after her ‘sizzled wrist’.
Despite her high-intensity week, Annalise retained her trademark positive attitude following the ordeal, telling followers:
‘Here’s to a safe, healthy, happy, fun and love filled delicious weekend for us all,’ she said in a post on Friday.
Lucky escape: ‘If it wasn’t for my leaping straight to the kitchen sink and turning on the tap pouring water over my jumper that went up in flames, I might not have had a face or hair or even a kitchen…’ she explained in an Instagram post
‘And the only fire being a healthy meal cooking on gas, burning passion and desire, or smoking hotness!!’
Annalise began her modelling career in the 1990s, her stunning figure making her a favourite choice among men’s magazines.
The Sydney-born model flaunted her physique for magazines and advertising campaigns across the globe in the years that followed.
Annalise works out five to six times a week to keep her figure toned, with her exercises of choice Pilates, Yin and Vinyasa yoga.
She supplements with mediation sessions and power walking with friends along Sydney’s coastline.
The model also only drinks purified water and eats a ‘predominantly plant based diet’.
Staying positive: Despite her high-intensity week, Annalise retained her trademark positive attitude following the ordeal, telling followers: ‘Here’s to a safe, healthy, happy, fun and love filled delicious weekend for us all,’ she said in a post on Friday