Katie Couric might be sporting a nasty bruise this vacation season … revealing she’s now black and blue after an unlucky pickleball accident.

The famed newswoman posted on her Instagram Tales Friday, the place she shared an up-close take a look at the noticeable lump forming on her head.

Per Katie, the massive mark — which seemed to be turning purple — was brought on by a self-inflicted pickleball harm.

She wrote … “If you hit your self within the head with the pickleball paddle.”

Whereas Katie was clearly making an attempt to snigger off the unlucky harm, she did seem a bit embarrassed by all of it … she had a definite grimace on her face as she held an icepack to her brow in one other pic from her pickleball recreation.

Her associates, who the previous “Right this moment” character known as her “queens,” appeared to get snigger from the scenario … as they smiled broad in a single replace from the pickleball court docket.

Katie is simply the newest movie star who has jumped on the pickleball pattern — which simply so occurs to be the fastest-growing sport in america.

She’s joined the likes of Taylor Swift, Dax Shepard, Katy Perry, Ellen DeGeneres and Michael Phelps, amongst others.

This is hoping Katie’s unlucky accident does not maintain her from the court docket for too lengthy.