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Katie Lee Gifford<\/a> was recently hospitalized due to a fall.<\/span><\/p>\n The 70-year-old TV personality <\/span>told People<\/em><\/a> that she suffered a fall, which fractured her pelvis in two places, amid her\u00a0<\/span>recovery from hip replacement surgery<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Gifford told the outlet that she had overexerted herself moving books for a book signing event in Nashville and wound up tripping the next day when she went to answer the door for her friends at her home.<\/span><\/p>\n “It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot,” Gifford told the outlet. “The next thing you know, I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, the front and the back. That’s more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful.”<\/span><\/p>\n “You think you know your body and the next thing you know, your body changes when you get older,” the former <\/span>Today<\/span><\/em> show anchor shared. “As much as I don’t wanna think about it, I am.”<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this month — before the pelvis injury — Gifford appeared on the <\/span>Today<\/span><\/em> show,\u00a0<\/span>returning to studio 1A<\/a>\u00a0to sit down with\u00a0<\/span>Hoda Kotb<\/a>, 59. Gifford shared that she was on the road to recovery after her hip replacement while promoting her new novel,\u00a0<\/span>Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to her procedure, Gifford was in “agonizing pain” and had “one of the worst hips” her doctor had ever seen. Gifford said she had her hip replacement surgery about a month ago.<\/span><\/p>\n “I had been in such agonizing pain,” Gifford said, noting that her physical discomfort “was terrible” before surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n “My doctor finished the surgery, came in to tell me it went beautifully and then said, ‘Kathie, how have you been existing all this time?'” Gifford recalled. “He said, ‘It’s one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.'”<\/span><\/p>\n Gifford’s active lifestyle may be partially to blame for her hip deterioration.<\/span><\/p>\n “You’re always on the go,” Kotb told Gifford. The two co-hosted\u00a0<\/span>Today\u00a0<\/span><\/em>together for 11 years before\u00a0<\/span>Gifford retired<\/a>\u00a0and relocated to Nashville in 2019. “I never once saw you stop, even if you were in the car. I remember, you’d be writing notes. You’re always- your brain, your body is always working.”<\/span><\/p>\n