Ilona Maher Jokes 'Stop Fighting Over Me' After Showing Off Bruises from Broken Nose

Mar. 15, 2025

Ilona Maher showed off her bloody nose sustained from an on-field collision with the Bristol Bears.Photo:Ilona Maher/Instagram

Ilona Maher/Instagram

TheOlympic bronze medalist, 28, was forced to leave the game early on Saturday, Jan. 18 after colliding with three players on the field at Ashton Gate,Essentially Sportsreported. Maher showed off the injury on Instagram the following day, giving a thumbs up and smiling as her nose was packed with bloody cotton.

“Just a little knock,”she quipped, later revealing that she’d actually broken her nose during the match.

Ilona Majer showed off her broken nose, which she sustained during a Bristol Bears game.Ilona Maher/Instagram

Once the swelling and bruising kicked in, Maher shareda videoof her joking about how people will react “on the street to me today [probably].” She wrote, “I’m just assuming this is how today will go.”

“Guys, stop fighting over me. There’s enough to go around,” she said in the clip, bashfully tucking her hair behind her ears. “What? I am a model. Thank you so much. Oh, you’ve already fallen in love? It’ll pass. It’ll pass.”

Jokes aside, Maherisa model, having appeared on the cover ofSports Illustrated Swimsuit’s digital issue last August.

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In anearlier video, captioned, “when people keep asking me if I’m okay but I just broke my nose,” she used audio from her appearance onDancing with the StarswhenCarrie Ann Inabaasked how she was feeling after atough performance.

Holding an ice pack to her swollen nose, Maher lip-synced “been better, Carrie Ann,” as she pointed her to cut and swollen nose. “No, sir, I am truly not okay,” she wrote in the caption.

A broken nose can take up to six weeks to heal, theCleveland Clinicsays.

Despite her injury, the Bristol Bears beat the Leicester Tigers, 43 - 29.

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