Countryfile star Julia found out she had breast cancer in September 2021 and just weeks later underwent a double mastectomy.The 51-year-old said that she had been able to have an implant and keep her own nipple and feels “lucky and grateful”.
However, Julia admitted that she found it really hard to look at her breasts after the op and it took her a few weeks to do so.But, braver still, she has agreed to do it on film for an upcoming documentary.
She said: “It was always a career no, getting my breasts out on television, but here I go. I looked at it in the bedroom in my wardrobe mirror and – I don’t want to upset my surgeon, because he has done a brilliant job – it looked like a plasticine boob. “That was eight weeks post-mastectomy.
Several weeks later, my mum looked again and said 'Jules, it is beautiful,' and I realised how far I had come.”Julia, a mum-of-three, also told You magazine that she had “micro invasions” meaning that the cancer has a higher than average chance of returning.She continued: “I’m in the top five or six per cent of women in the country in terms of the likelihood of recurrence.
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