Sarah Beeny said she “lived in fear” of breast cancer.
Sarah Beeny lived in fear of cancer
The 51-year-old presenter, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last August, was given the all-clear from the disease in April.
Appearing on BBC’s ‘The One Show’ to discuss her new Channel 4 documentary ‘Sarah Beeny v Cancer’, the property expert told the hosts she always lived in fear growing up after her mother died from the disease when she was a child.
She said: "When I got to 39, which is the age she died, I thought ‘Here we are.’ And then I got to 40 and thought, that’s weird!
“And then I got to 50 and got the diagnosis.
"I’ve lived with this fear for such a long time. But once I realised how the treatment works, it’s not nearly as bad as the fear."
Fearing death, Sarah underwent a double mastectomy after her diagnosis.
The mother-of-four has been open about her battle with the disease and embraced the hair loss by shaving off her hair. The presenter took a candid snapshot showcasing the reality of living with cancer and having to draw on eyebrows.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine last month, Sarah told Christine Lampard that it was good to be given the all-clear but admitted that it felt weird.
She said: "It's good but it's weird, the doctors sort of kind of go 'oh right that's it then, that's the end of that' and you're like, 'how do you know?' Then they go, we don't but we think so.
"It's an ongoing thing. I have to take drugs for years and be very vigilant. It's been a kind of weird ride."
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