Jessie J has detailed how she was met with messages of unwanted ‘advice’ in the aftermath of sharing her breast cancer diagnosis.
In June the singer, 37, revealed she’d been diagnosed with ‘early breast cancer’ a few months earlier.
At the time Jessie – real name Jessica Ellen Cornish – said she was set to ‘disappear’ for a bit to undergo a mastectomy.
‘I’m getting to keep my nipples … that’s good. It’s a very dramatic way to get a boob job!,’ she joked.
Although Jessie had made light of the surgery by saying she would ‘come back with massive boobs’, she’s now shared how many weighed in and made comments about her breasts.
In an interview with The Times, Jessie detailed the unsolicited advice some attempted to pass on.
‘People messaged me saying, “Don’t get big implants”,’ she recalled while rolling her eyes.
‘Like, this isn’t cosmetic surgery, it’s a mastectomy. I was able to keep my nipple but it’s all numb now.
‘And when I bend down it looks like I’ve got a plastic carrier bag in my boob because you can see the wrinkles.’
Jessie’s early diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) allowed her to avoid chemo and radiotherapy, but the large size of her tumour (5cm), required a full mastectomy.
Following the surgery, Jessie’s mum was helping massage her boob recently (as she can’t touch the scars) but started sobbing and in shock over ‘how this has happened’.
Although she recently received the all-clear, Jessie is feeling ‘cautiously confident’ but still needs another surgery and ‘to heal’. She also was pragmatic about the cancer returning, citing the statistic that there was a 1 in 2 chance of it happening.
Jessie’s breast cancer diagnosis came in the middle of her music comeback after three years without releasing new music.
Her next album is due to be released at the end of the year, but Jessie also said that if she ‘died tomorrow’ she wouldn’t car about where her songs have charted and was instead more concerned about how she’d ‘made people feel’.
Last week she was rushed back into hospital after having an infection and fluid on her lungs develop.
In a series of posts shared on social media, Jessie said she was also ‘finding it hard to breathe’ but was eventually able to leave and go home.
Jessie has previously been open about other health issues. She’s spoken before about being diagnosed with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome as a child, a condition that makes the heartbeat abnormally fast.
She also suffered a minor stroke as a teenager and, in 2020, was in a car accident that injured her larynx and left her unable to sing for a year.
The singer is mum to son Sky, who was born in May 2023. His dad is professional basketball player Chanan Colman, whom Jessie began dating in 2021.
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