Bianca Balti after preventive mastectomy: “The operation went well”

bianca Balti she had surgery. The model underwent an operation by preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting sick breast cancera decision made after discovering that she carried the gene mutation BRCA1which predisposes to the development of this type of cancer.

«The operation went well, I had a nice little pain when I woke up, they gave me stuff for the pain and now I’m in my room,” Balti said in a short video posted on Instagram. «Guys, nothing, I just wanted to give you an update, I’m very happy… that’s it, I’ll continue to give you updates even if you don’t give a damn». Apart from the pain, just a little understandable hunger for the model, who appeared serene after the anxieties of the hours preceding the surgery.

Of the decision to remove the breast, but also the ovaries, Bianca Balti had spoken for the first time last autumn. Then the choice of a date and the fears of the eve, which however had made that decision even more solid. “I wish my little girls they found in me the strength to act if one day they too were diagnosed. Because I love life too much not to do what I can to preserve it. I felt proud to set a date, impatient to wait. But now that the time has come I don’t feel like it. I feel fragile. Scared of having to depend on others. Terrified of the pain I will feel. Disheartened in having to give up a part of my body that has defined my femininity up to now », the last sentences before entering the operating room.

Now he couldn’t be happier with the decision he made, it was the right one.

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