37 h. ago ‘We’d been through so much’: Jean Hannah Edelstein on breasts – and life without them

All her life Jean Hannah Edelstein had tried to feel comfortable with her breasts, battling unwelcome attention and breastfeeding woes. But then came cancer and a double mastectomy – and she realised she was losing something she lovedLet me tell you about my breasts, of blessed memory. That’s not something I would have said while I still had them. I was quite prim, you see, and maybe I still am, but a double mastectomy gives you license to say “‘breast” over and over again, without the usual consequences. My breasts were real, and they were spectacular.That’s a Seinfeld reference, if you’re not familiar. Seinfeld was one of the shows that I watched often in my adolescent years when my breasts first asserted themselves. It was among our key texts. We were in late-20th-century America, my breasts and I. It was a time and place that taught me that women’s bodies – breasts, specifically – were objects of desire, and jokes, and danger. Friends, Baywatch, Melrose Place. Clueless, Scream. ...

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3 d. ago Olivia Munn discusses going topless in new show following her double mastectomy

Olivia Munn opened up about her acting comeback as she appeared in her first role in more than three years.

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4 d. ago I was desperate to be a boy and to have my breasts removed. Now I realise I was a girl all along

'I've done my best to support her at every stage, but I drew the line at giving my consent for her to have the testosterone and double mastectomy she was so intent on. And thank goodness I did.'

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7 d. ago Olivia Munn gets candid about parenting and reveals moment she had a ‘real big breakdown’

The actor shares her two kids — Malcolm Hiệp and Méi June — with husband John Mulaney

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2 w. ago Sarah Beeny moves Bake Off viewers as she discusses 'heartbreaking' cancer battle story

The broadcaster was diagnosed in August 2022 and underwent intense chemotherapy and a double mastectomy before being given the all-clear in 2023

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3 w. ago ‘I cried about my breast cancer – but I didn’t throw a pity party’: Anastacia on hardship, hits and humour

Twenty-five years after her debut album, the star is still loving life as a ‘continual working girl’. She talks about menopause, mastectomy and her bizarre failure to crack her native AmericaAfter Anastacia had a double mastectomy in 2013, she began to joke about it. “It was wild to look at myself. I said: ‘My boobs look like this!’” She peers at me with her eyes screwed shut. We are sharing a sofa in a photographic studio in London. I’m not sure what she means, but she belts out, “No eyeballs!” (Typically, nipples come towards the end of reconstructive surgery.) Even in hospital, “I would make jokes and be funny,” she says. “I’m lucky.” Lucky isn’t how many people would feel after getting breast cancer for the second time, but preventive surgery was her choice and, she says, “I can accept it when I find humour in it. Being able to take the mick out of myself and my toxic titties! – See! There you go! – it takes the sting out of it.”Anastacia has always been like this, she says. Bac...

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