Kathie Lee Gifford discusses 'painful' recovery from surgery: 'This is serious'

Kathie Lee Gifford had no idea hip replacement surgery would be such a big deal.

The former talk show host assumed her extremely active lifestyle would help her body in the recovery process after doctors operated, and thought recuperating would be "easy" post surgery.

Gifford, 70, told People magazine, that the experience has been "one of the most painful situations of my entire life." 

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