Jessie J, the singer, has revealed how she managed to maintain her optimism following a mastectomy following her breast cancer diagnosis.
Singer Jessie J is certainly no stranger to health woes since childhood. But when she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer her seemingly perfect life looked as though it was falling apart.
She had just embarked on new romance with a man she now considers to be the love of her life and she had also become a mother, which was something she had wanted to experience for many years.
Jessie J’s positive attitude is remarkable, despite a cancer diagnosis and mastectomy destroying most of the body.
She told The Guardian that she was fortunate that she didn’t have to go through radiotherapy and chemotherapy while also having the operation, which she described as one of her life’s most challenging times.
She continued, “Cancer sucks, man, but you know what?” I found it early, thanks. My right breast, which I had a four-month mastectomy, now resembles a grapefruit under a bed sheet. However, I must maintain the nipple.
She continued, “They didn’t do an implant as small as my original,” touting her lack of reconstructive surgery. How unkind! I figured there was no need to bully me because I’m already struggling. Such crudeness! I said I would never get my boobs because I have OCD, and I am aware that they would never be perfect, so it’s funny. That plan was ruined by cancer.
Jessie believes that having dealt with such a blow has resulted in her having battled harrowing illnesses before. She continued, “You having a good time, I feel life goes,” “Sorry, I feel like it,” “Sit down.” It has always been accompanied by moments of success for me when something severe or obscure has happened to my health since I was a child.
The internationally acclaimed hitmaker had been cast in Whistle Down the Wind’s West End production at the age of eleven. However, she had been given the diagnosis Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart condition. A quick heartbeat, dizziness, and palpitations are reportedly symptoms of this condition. She explained that she was a patient receiving an IV drip during rehearsals and going home in the evening.
And years later, while attending the Brit School, she joined a girl group called Soul Deep at the age of 17. However, her joy was cut short by a stroke.
Unfortunately, fate dealt her yet another blow, sadly for the mother of one. She claimed that she had been pushed up in a car accident in 2020, which prevented her from singing for a full year.
Amazingly, Jessie hasn’t let her various illnesses define her as an adult. She credits her parents for instilling that into her, and she acknowledges that. She claimed that she had “carried through” that she found “amazing.”
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Source: Mirror
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