Earlier this year, we reported that the Hollywood star Brooke Shields had been rushed to the hospital after breaking her femur. Now, the 55 year-old star is speaking out to give fans an update on her difficult recovery from this injury.

Shields said that while the recovery process has been grueling, she can now walk “with no crutches and no cane.”

“And I’m starting to work out again. But … there’s bone soreness, and there’s a lot of weakness,” Shields said, according to Fox News.

Shields went on to say that she is still in physical therapy, and that patience has been crucial in her recovery.

“I’m able to stand on that leg fully and balance, and I’m getting all of that back and just kinetically getting more connected again and re-educating all of my muscles to fire appropriately again,” she continued, adding that physical therapy is “a lot of work.”

“You really have to do it every day, and you have to have a mindset because it can be very frustrating,” she said.

Shields then said that while it will be “a while” before she’s back to full strength, “every day it’s a little bit better, and I’m beginning each day to start fresh.”

Shields said earlier this year that when she was first injured, she thought she was paralyzed because she could not feel her toes.

“It felt like it was all in slow motion. And then I just started screaming,” she said. “Sounds came out that I’ve never heard before. The pain was so excruciating.”

Shields was injured when she fell off a balance board in the gym, and she landed in such a way that it shattered the bone. Afterwards, doctors had to place two metal rods in her leg near her hip.

“I fell off a balance board,” Shields told People Magazine. “Honestly, every day I feel like I’m having to begin again. Rehab is always slow and it’s one day at a time and you just take what you can control and go, ‘Okay, I’m going to be happy with that as my progress for right now.'”

Despite what happened, Shields is determined to stay positive, as she knows that negativity is “not going to help.”

“If you ask yourself to come up with reasons why things are bad, you’ll come up with pages and pages,” she added. “But if you just ask yourself to think about the positives, whatever they are, it could always be worse. People are struggling everywhere. I have day-to-day things that I can do in my realm of control, in every area of my life. That’s what I’m going to focus on.”