Baywatch star Nicole Eggert has shared a powerful video with her legion of fans following her diagnosis with breast cancer.
The 52-year-old actress, who played Summer Quinn on the television series, took to Instagram on Friday with footage showing her shaving her head.
She wrote to her 143,000 followers alongside the video, which was set to the Beastie Boys’ Fight For Your Right: “Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves but allowing ourselves to be who we are – Madeleine Eames.”
Watch the video above.
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In the video, Eggert can be seen holding up clippers to her head, and shaving her pixie cut off.
Towards the end of the footage, she was seemingly joined by one of her daughters, who stepped into the room to help Eggert shave the rest of her hair off.
Once the big chop had been completed, Eggert looked to the camera and smiled.
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It comes four months after Eggert revealed to the public that she had been diagnosed with a “very rare” form of breast cancer.
In February, three months after revealing her diagnosis, she told Inside Edition that doctors had found more cancer in her lymph nodes.
In the interview, Eggert said she “kicks herself” for not regularly getting her breasts checked over the years.
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She also said tissue from the breast implants she got when she was 19 had made it harder for anomalies in her chest to be detected.
It was in October she underwent a mammogram and three biopsies after gaining weight and feeling pain in her left breast.
She was diagnosed with stage two cribriform carcinoma breast cancer, a rare form of invasive breast cancer that has an occurrence rate of less than one per cent in primary breast carcinomas.
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”When I felt it, my heart dropped and I was like, ‘Oh my god’. Nobody could take me, so I walked into every breast care centre. It’s horrifying because every day and every minute that passes, you know it’s growing,” Eggert said of feeling the pain in her breast.
She was diagnosed a month later.
Eggert said of her diagnosis: ”My heart dropped, I lost all hearing, everything sank. It’s named invasive cribriform carcinoma. It’s very rare.”