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Sarah Hyland Reveals Recent Kidney Transplant

Entertainment Tonight, Monday, May 14, 2012, 10:34am (PDT)

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Sarah Hyland -- who plays spunky big sister Haley Dunphy on Modern Family -- is opening up about a secret disease that led her to receive a kidney transplant last month.

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The 21-year-old actress reveals in the new issue of Seventeen magazine that after fighting a lifelong battle with kidney dysplasia, she underwent the transplant on April 13, with her father as the donor. She calls the new kidney "a second chance at life" that "not a lot of people get."

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She tells the magazine -- on newsstands May 22 -- that the experience emphasized the importance of her extended family. "You know that family is always going to be there for you -- no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!" she says. "But it's also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you're friends with. It was just amazing, and it really opened my eyes to see who's there for me and who's not."

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Sarah also praised her boyfriend, actor Matt Prokop, for helping her through the ordeal. "He helps me with my medication and takes me to doctor appointments and all the stuff that I need to do to take care of myself. Any other 21-year-old guy would not be there, I guarantee it. I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have him be there for me."

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