Los Angeles, Oct 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The great ravishing beauty who turned 77, but looks so radiant in her charms, Elizabeth Taylor was diagnosed with a heart condition is being treated for the same. Her heart condition is said to be congestive heart failure, which was found out five years ago and she was under treatment for it too.

Taylor has endured severe back problems and a benign brain tumor operation too, in recent years. She made the announcement on her Twitter page, saying she wanted to break the news herself before the media found out.

“Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” Taylor wrote.

“It’s very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better. Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I’ll let you know when it’s all over. Love you, Elizabeth,” she said.

The injury and illness prone Taylor also has a hip replacement and, two years later had surgery to remove a brain tumor.

She also suffers from osteoporosis and that has broken her back five times.

She won the top acting award, the Oscar twice for her brilliant acting skills.