Jimmy Kimmel shares poignant update on 7-year-old son Billy's health two months after undergoing third open heart surgery

Jimmy Kimmel has shared an update connected really his seven-year-old boy Billy is doing after undergoing his 3rd unfastened bosom room successful May.

The 56-year-old host's boy - who he shares pinch woman Molly McNearney - was calved pinch a congenital bosom illness successful 2017. 

Jimmy told Entertainment Tonight: 'Billy's doing great, He had open-heart surgery, you cognize he's sewage nan scars and everything, but he's conscionable mentally correct backmost wherever he was which is crazy.'

He added, 'Physically, you know, we're gonna person to beryllium observant pinch him for a mates of months, but he's doing really well.'

Jimmy besides touched connected really children show their resilience astatine a young age. 

'They're made of rubber, you know,' nan comedian continued, 'everybody says that kids are truthful resilient and nan doctors really explained it to maine which I don't cognize why it ne'er occurred to maine earlier because they're still growing.'

In May, Jimmy updated followers connected really Billy was doing pursuing his surgery.

'This weekend, our boy Billy had his 3rd (of three, we hope) unfastened bosom surgery. We went into this acquisition pinch a batch of optimism and astir arsenic overmuch fearfulness and came retired pinch a caller valve wrong a happy, patient kid,' he wrote connected Instagram beneath a photograph of his boy smiling large while successful a infirmary bed.

After thanking Billy's doctors and nan infirmary staff, Jimmy continued, 'Walking astir this hospital, gathering parents astatine their astir vulnerable, children successful symptom and nan occurrence workers who do everything successful their sizeable powerfulness to prevention them is simply a humbling experience.'

The TV characteristic concluded his rubbing post, 'Thanks to those loving strangers who took clip to believe for and nonstop affirmative power to our baby, acknowledgment to our family and friends for rallying astir america to an almost-ridiculous extent, convey you to my woman Molly for being stronger than is reasonable for immoderate Mom to beryllium and Billy, you are nan toughest (and funniest) 7 year-old we know. Nothing matters much than taking attraction of each other. With emotion and gratitude, Jimmy.'

Jimmy first opened up astir his son's bosom information aft his birth, revealing that Billy had to acquisition open-heart room astatine conscionable 3 days old. 

'Six days aft unfastened bosom surgery, we sewage to bring him home, which was amazing,' nan shaper said successful 2017 during an affectional monologue. 'He's doing great. He's eating, he's sleeping. He peed connected his mother coming while she was changing his diaper. He's doing each nan things that he's expected to do.'

Despite nan scary news, Jimmy was still capable to fto his joke flick through.

'Poor kid,' he joked. 'Not only did he get a bad heart, he sewage my face.'

The writer is besides dada to 10-year-old daughter, Jane.

'We had a small girl, we named her aft my grandma - her sanction is Grandma Kimmel,' Jimmy teased to nan assemblage successful 2014 during his late-night talk show's opening monologue. 'She weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz. astatine birth. Twenty inches long, conscionable supra nan ineligible limit — sometimes, they make you propulsion them back.'

He said, 'I've been taking location successful nan vicinity of 10,000 pictures of her a day. She thinks I'm pinch TMZ now.'

Taking a infinitesimal to talk astir parenting successful 2016, Jimmy shared during a speech with People, 'Everything's awesome astir it - moreover nan bad things are great. When I travel home, nan level of excitement is thing that you really tin only get from a pet. She goes crazy.'

Over nan years, Jimmy has continued to stock small updates connected his family life, moreover admitting that Jane followed successful his footsteps erstwhile it came to being willing successful politics.

'My girl actually, my girl is 6 years old, and she was watching,' he said astir nan 2020 Presidential election. 'We had CNN connected for for illustration 4 days successful a row. She's very willing successful what's going connected and she feels for illustration she has a liking successful it.'

And alongside his small ones, Jimmy has besides gushed complete his different half passim nan years. 

'So it turns out, 1 should cheque pinch his important different earlier posting a photograph of said different successful furniture pinch bedewed hairsbreadth and wearing reference glasses…,' nan Academy Awards big wrote connected Instagram, referencing a photograph he shared of his wife, 'so now I person nary prime but to employment nan atomic option: this photograph of my beautiful, superb and glamorous woman changeable by Mark Seliger. Happy Mothers Day Molly - we emotion you and admit nan zillion things you do.'