“Baywatch” star Nicole Eggert had an emotional moment after realizing about her cancer treatment.
In an Instagram video Shared on November 20, Eggert explained that she had a CT scan done to map the placement of radiation treatments and got small tattoos in the process.
“Okay, so I just got out of my CT scan and charted out my radiation treatment, as they call it, and when they said they were going to tattoo me, I didn’t realize they were real, real tattoos, so I was tattooed ! ” she said.
Nicole Eggert was devastated after getting small tattoos before her radiation treatment as she continues to battle breast cancer. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)
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“And it’s small, it’s just dots, but boy, every step of this process will never let you forget, there will always be a constant reminder,” Eggert continued, as her voice broke and she began to tear up. upwards.
She was able to laugh off some of the stress by joking, “So yeah, I have tattoos, my mom will be really proud of my neck tattoo, but that’s okay, that’s okay.”
“The people were great. I’m still not looking forward to it at all. But I got through that part and the rest will just have to be me working on myself and how I’m going to get through it and ignoring the new tattoos I have ,” added the 52-year-old.
Eggert was diagnosed with cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in 2023. (Getty Images)
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Eggert was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in 2023.
“I have a twelve-year-old at home and I am the only caregiver. I have no family. I have nothing,” she said People magazine at the time. “It immediately made me realize, you just can’t give in to this. This is something I have to get through. This is something I have to beat. She needs me more than anything,” she said of her daughter Keegan. Eggert’s other daughter, Dilyn, is 25.
In August this year, Eggert gave an update on her health during the premiere of the documentary ‘After Baywatch: Moment in The Sun’.
“Every step of this process will never let you forget, there will always be a constant reminder.”
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“I’m doing well,” Eggert said People magazine. “I’m kind of in a gray area and I’ve completed my treatment, waiting for more imaging and hopefully maybe surgery.
“And there’s a lot of waiting involved and it’s something that I didn’t really realize and that no one really talks about,” she explained. “But the gray area is the hardest, because you don’t know what’s happening, and when I do a treatment I feel like I’m doing something productive.”
She told me too Entertainment tonight at the premiere: “There are good days. There are bad days. It’s a roller coaster. It’s a wild ride that I never wanted to be on. So sometimes I’m good… It is what it is. But I just live .I just try to stay positive every day and keep going.”
Eggert debuted her shaved head from cancer treatment in March. (Getty Images/Instagram: Nicole Eggert)
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Eggert shared another post about preparing for her radiation treatment after the tattoo video, in which she said she was walking for the first time since her surgery.
“Today I’m pushing myself and preparing for that radiation, the fatigue that comes with it, so here we go!” ‘ she said with some enthusiasm.
