Radio host Amy Gerard reveals the one big problem with getting breast checks with implants – after shock cancer diagnosis

Australian radio presenter Amy Gerard has opened up about her concerns about breast screenings after admitting she has breast implants.

In an interview with Chris Page and Amy Gerard on KIIS Network on Sunday morning, Amy reminded women to get regular checkups, but admitted she felt confused about the process.

“My breasts are probably different from other women’s, but I had an implant put in about ten years ago,” Gerard began.

“I actively tried to feel around and check for lumps and bumps,” she said of the checks she performed herself.

“But to be honest, I don’t really know if things are different for me, or if I just deal with things in exactly the same way as someone who doesn’t have an implant,” she added.

‘I know that the female breast is, as it were, compressed as in a sandwich press [during a mammogram]and I just don’t understand how that would work if there was an implant in it.’

During a mammogram, the breast is compressed between two flat plates on a mammography x-ray machine.

Although implants can affect the findings, people with implants can still have mammograms, and additional images are often taken.

These additional images, called implant-displaced views, help the radiologist assess tissue that would otherwise be blocked by the implants.

“I know you have to go in and have it crushed between the machine, but I really need to go to mine and have it checked,” Gerard admitted.

It comes just days after the radio star underwent surgery to remove cancer from her face.

Gerard dropped the bomb in her Instagram Stories on Tuesday.

In a series of posts, the mother of three showed the graphic process of removing basal cell carcinoma from her forehead.

In a photo after the operation, Gerard revealed: ‘This is the 5th [basal cell carcinoma] I had a cut and I never put my face in the sun.

Another photo showed a long row of stitches on Gerard’s forehead.

In a later video, Amy said the surgery had dramatically changed her appearance by tightening the skin on her forehead.

“I shouldn’t be laughing, but this is my normal face,” the author said as she tried to hold back tears of laughter.

“I look so worried,” she said, explaining that the surgeon had pulled her skin tight as he stitched her up.

It comes just days after the radio star underwent surgery to remove cancer from her face. Pictured last week before the operation

The procedure had raised her eyebrows and given Gerard a permanently worried look.

“Let’s hope it stabilizes. It’s very tight.”

The health update comes just weeks after Gerard explained how she received a shaming comment about her mother on Instagram.

One of her followers sent her a private message in June saying he found it “inappropriate” and “unhygienic” that she kissed her children on the lips.

In a later video, Amy revealed that the surgery had drastically changed her appearance by tightening the skin on her forehead. Pictured after the surgery

Amy, mother of three young children: Charli, Bobby and Kobe, read the message live as she responded to the judgmental fan.

The message read: ‘Hi Amy, I love your videos with your child, but I think it’s really inappropriate that you kiss your children on the lips. Don’t you think it sends the wrong message and is also very unhygienic?’

Amy, who is married to her husband Rhian, responded by firmly shutting down the troll, saying it was “healthy” for parents to show their children affection.

“I look so worried,” she said, explaining that the surgeon had pulled her skin tight as he stitched her up.

“First of all, he’s my child and I’ll kiss him wherever I want on his face,” she replied.

“And secondly, he’s four years old, not eighteen. And as a mother who carried him, gave birth to him, and breastfed him, it’s my divine right to kiss his sweet little face on the lips.”

And I’ll keep doing it until he says, ‘Mom, you’re embarrassing,’ and that’s exactly what happened with my other two kids.

‘There is nothing unhygienic about it, in fact, it is healthy for parents to show affection to their children.