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Julia Bradbury breaks silence on undergoing mastectomy

BBC Countryfile star Julia Bradbury says her breast reconstruction after her mastectomy looked like a ‘plasticine boob’. Julia was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021.

Daily Record Julia Bradbury was diagnosed with breast cancer in September of last year

She told her children Zeph, ten, and twins Zena and Xanthe, six, about the heartbreaking diagnosis in September last year. She said: "At that point – and I think this is a moment that every woman who has had a mastectomy will share – I had never felt so lost, so out of control and so deeply sad.

"The shape of me, as I knew it when I looked in the mirror, was never going to be the same again." Julia told You magazine: "They were like something you see in the butchers. I felt like a piece of meat on a block."

She said: "I didn’t want to see myself so horribly damaged, bruised and battered. I looked at it in the bedroom in my wardrobe mirror and – I don’t want to upset my surgeon because he has done a brilliant job – it looked like a Plasticine boob. That was eight weeks post-mastectomy.

" Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK, the NHS website states. 

Reference: M: James Rodger