Bridget Bahl cancer diagnosis: Fashion influencer sobs as she issues desperate plea to her followers
Fashion influencer Bridget Bahl cried in a video as she told her more than 1 million followers that she has cancer.
“I’ve been putting off doing this video,” the 40-year-old began her Instagram video Sunday night. “It’s been a really tough time.”
“I found out I had breast cancer,” she said, later saying the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.
The fashion icon will now undergo chemotherapy, surgery and possibly radiation to treat the cancer, which she said is “very effective with targeted treatment, which gives us a lot of hope.”
She urged all her followers to do some self-examination, ‘and if you feel something, you should say it and you should get it checked out and not wait. Don’t wait.’
Fashion influencer Bridget Bahl announced on Sunday that she has breast cancer
Bahl, who married Texas-based plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Chiodo last year in New York City, said she and her husband were trying to have a child when they received the devastating news.
She said she was “maybe a day or two” into her fertility treatment and had a routine ultrasound and blood test with her doctor when she told him she felt something in her breast.
“And he said, ‘We’re stopping now, you need to… come inside for the imaging,’” Bahl said through tears.
At first she didn’t think it was anything serious. She thought it was a cyst, possibly caused by the hormones.
“I felt great,” she said.
Still, she went to a doctor for a scan, who told her, “I’m not happy with what I see.” He encouraged her to have a biopsy of the tumor that same day.
Just one day later, the doctor called back and ‘sadly confirmed that I have breast cancer and that the cancer has spread to a lymph node.’
The fashion influencer will now have to undergo chemotherapy, surgery and possibly radiation to treat the cancer
Bahl said she heard the devastating news while trying to have a child with her husband, Dr. Michael Chiodo.
Despite the bleak news, Bahl seemed hopeful.
“I know it will be okay, but I also know the road ahead is very scary. I don’t want to do it, but I believe I can, by the grace of God.”
The past few weeks have been a complete nightmare [with] “Just making those appointments and plans,” she continued, tears in her eyes, “and I’ve felt God so many times.”
She then explained that she decided to share the news of her cancer diagnosis with her followers because it “feels like too big an opportunity not to share,” noting that Instagram is 90 percent female.