Fashion and lifestyle influencer Bridget Bahl revealed she has breast cancer in an emotional Instagram video posted on September 22.
Bahl, 41, tearfully spoke about her diagnosis, which she received a few weeks ago while attempting her sixth IVF procedure. “We just really want to have a baby,” said the content creator, who is married to plastic surgeon Michael Chiodo.
“I was maybe two or three days into injections and I had routine blood work, a sonogram with my doctor, and I told him I felt something in my breast,” Bahl explained in her video. The doctor immediately advised her to go for filming. She continued: “He got me in a day or two and I was completely convinced that everything was fine, it was just a cyst and it was from hormones.”
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Going in for the scan, Bahl said she was “really, really not concerned” about the abnormality. – I felt great – she added. – I feel great.
As for the mammogram and sonogram, Bahl said she met with a “wonderful” doctor who showed her the mass and said, “Bridget, I’ve been doing this for a long time and I don’t like what I’m seeing,” New York influencer recalled and Dallas.
At the specialist’s insistence, Bahl had a biopsy done that day, and the doctor called him the next day with the hard news: “Unfortunately, [she] confirmed that I had breast cancer and that it had spread to my lymph nodes,” Bahl said.
She described her last few weeks as “nothing short of a nightmare” between “so many meetings and trying to process and make plans.”
Bridget Bahl.
Bridget Bahl/Instagram
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Bahl also said she will have to undergo chemotherapy, surgery and possibly radiation. “The good news is that the type I have is responding very well to targeted treatment, which gives us so much hope,” she told her 1.4 million Instagram followers.
“I know I’m going to be fine, and I also know that we have a really scary road ahead of us,” she continued. “And I don’t want to do it, but I believe that by God’s grace I can do it.”
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Currently, Bahl said she and her husband are completing what will be their final IVF recovery process.
“We didn’t start at the most ideal time. There’s not enough time to wait to do another round, so I’m just asking for prayers. I’d just like to get another embryo,” she said. “It would mean so much to me if you could pray for that.”
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Bridget Bahl and her husband Mike Chiodo.
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The star of social networks concluded by calling on her followers to remain cautious about their own health. She reminded them to continue with routine breast self-examination.
“This platform is 90 percent female, and it seems like too big an opportunity not to share,” Bahl said. “You have to do a self-examination, and if you feel something, you have to say something and you have to get it checked out. Don’t wait. . . . If you don’t wait, you’ll have a better chance of treating it and getting it and fighting it.”
Bahl concluded, “I’m so grateful. I’m so blessed by this community. I can’t encourage you enough to please please do a self-examination and I hope this helps someone else.”
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