Sam McClymont has revealed how her young songs are faring as she undergoes chemotherapy while battling breast cancer.
The Getaway host and country music star was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease last year at the age of 38.
She admitted it was also difficult to explain her diagnosis to her two young boys, Wilder, six, and Ari, five, but they have been supportive.
“He likes to say to people, ‘This is my mother, she’s bald,'” she says Stellar magazine this week from her youngest son, Ari.
“It’s not like he’s seeing anyone else like me right now, so I think it’s a protective issue if he wants to call out the elephant in the room before it’s pointed out, ‘Yes, we know mommy is bald.’ Thank you ‘”.
She said her son and husband, pilot Ben Poxon, also helped her shave off her hair, but she “couldn’t be emotional when she looked in the mirror like they were with her.”
Sam previously revealed that she was initially given the all-clear last year after finding a lump in her right breast and went in to get her results assuming it would be good news.
“I was alone when they told me I had triple negative cancer, the most aggressive breast cancer,” she said.
Sam McClymont has revealed how her young songs are faring as she undergoes chemotherapy while battling breast cancer. Pictured in Stellar
‘What goes through my head is: I’ve known this since October and it’s now the end of February; How fast has this grown?’
Sam said she had further tests and heard nothing from her doctor, so she returned for her next appointment three weeks later.
“I decided to go to the specialist and see what my options were,” she said Women’s Day.
But she was shocked when the specialist told her she had triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form.
She admitted it was also difficult to explain her diagnosis to her two young boys, Wilder, six, and Ari, five, but they were supportive
She said her son and husband, pilot Ben Poxon, also helped her shave off her hair, but she “couldn’t be emotional when she looked in the mirror the way they were with her.”
‘I immediately started crying. It was a shock. He told me about all the treatments, but I couldn’t believe it,” Sam recalled.
‘I cried when I called [her husband] Ben and my younger sister Mollie. Then she cried. Nobody expected this.’
Sam has also taken a step back from work as she is currently unable to travel with her TV show Getaway.
She has completed 12 of her 16 chemotherapy treatments and will then undergo surgery and radiation.
Triple negative breast cancer is considered life-threatening because it is aggressive and accelerates the rate at which the cancer can grow and spread.
Common symptoms include breast lumps, swelling, breast or nipple pain, dimpled skin, and nipple discharge.
Read more in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine