Actress Nicole Eggert became popularly known in the 1990s thanks to her portrayal of the unforgettable Roberta “Summer” Quinn in the television series Baywatch. Although the actress only appeared in the first two seasons, her character was one of the most loved and acclaimed by a large part of the audience.
Now, almost 30 years after the success she achieved with fiction, the American interpreter confirmed terrible news related to her state of health. Eggert revealed at the beginning of the year in an interview with People magazine that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 51. According to what she said in the aforementioned media, doctors had confirmed in December that she had breast cancer with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma.
“It’s been hard (…) At first I thought it was the menopause,” declared the actress. And Nicole Eggert attributed all the cancer symptoms to the menopause that she was going through when she was just turning 50. But when she noticed a lump in the chest, he decided to make an urgent appointment with his doctor.
In addition, the Baywatch interpreter claimed that she gained about 12 kilos in just three months and that she began to have “terrible pain” in her left breast in the month of October. ”I had to wait until the end of November to review it,” said the actress after stating how much her medical appointment had been delayed due to the long waiting lists.
After three biopsies, a mammogram and several pathology tests, the doctors confirmed the diagnosis. “It has been very difficult for me,” acknowledged the American. Now, several weeks after announcing her current state of health, the actress published a video on her Instagram profile in which she shows live how she shaves her hair in her fight against breast cancer. . ”Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves, but allowing ourselves to be who we are – Madeleine Eames,” the interpreter wrote in the description of the video.
