Actor Nicole Eggert opened up about the hardest part of her breast cancer journey since her diagnosis last year.
Eggert, 52, gave People an update on her health while attending the premiere of “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” in Los Angeles on Aug. 26.
“I am good,” she said. “I am in sort of a gray area and I finished my treatment, waiting for more imaging and hopefully maybe surgery.”
“There’s a lot of waiting in this and it’s sort of something I didn’t really realize and nobody really talks about,” she added. “But the gray area is the hardest because you don’t know what’s happening. When I’m doing treatment, I felt like I was doing something productive.”
The “Charles in Charge” actor continued: “So it felt positive and I was like, OK, I’m doing something positive. And now that it’s just like nothing, it’s like, well wait a minute. We got to get this out. So it’s just frustrating.”
Eggert said in an interview with People earlier this year she had been diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in December 2023.
Cribriform breast cancer is a rare type of breast cancer that is slow growing, according to Breast Cancer Now. Surgery is one of the most common forms of treatment, along with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Eggert told People in January she had gained 25 pounds in three months and had “terrible pain” in her left breast, but dismissed them as signs of menopause until she felt a lump in her breast during a self-exam.
After a discovery mammogram and three biopsies, her pathology reports were positive for cancer, she said. Eggert said earlier this year she would need surgery to remove the cancer, and that she was working with an oncologist to determine if she would need radiation and chemotherapy.
“This journey’s been rough for me. This hasn’t been a breezy sale through life,” she said. “I always read inspirational quotes and corny stuff, but it gets me through.”
Eggert told People in August she meditates, does guided imagery and attends breath workshops to help keep herself occupied during her treatment.
“I do whatever I can, whatever I can … going walk or if it’s doing a meditation … I just do whatever I can to distract myself.”
She added that her two children, Dilyn, 25, and Keegan, 13, have been supportive since her diagnosis.
“I mean, they kept me on my toes,” she said. “My 13-year-old didn’t give me any special treatment. It was still like, ‘Mom, give me that, let’s go here, let’s do that.’”
“So she just kept me going and kept it lively,” Eggert added. “And I really loved that about both of them. And both treated it like nothing’s changing, just keep the days the way they are.”
Eggert said her children and working on “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” have given her a sense of purpose throughout her health journey.
“Having a young daughter and having this project has been a great motivation for me to not just sit and think about my health and my wellbeing. It’s giving me purpose,” Eggert said. “It’s keeping me driven every day. I think the timing of life is always for a reason.”
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