EXCLUSIVE: Marie Helvin Reveals Her Breast Cancer With KATHRYN KNIGHT
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‘I met my surgeon, Mr Hamed, who told me everything to expect,' she recalls, her eyes filling with tears as she explains how touched she was to find that his entire surgical team knew about her long career.
‘It felt that I'd got this letter and now it was time to take advantage of it — I've never had a problem in all these years, so what in the world would have given me cause to imagine that this could be serious?' she says.
The four-hour surgery involved removing the entire right breast down to the ribcage, along with two lymph nodes, and the insertion of a silicone implant.
‘It's big surgery, and of course I was anxious, but I had absolute trust in the doctors,' Marie says.
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To say the former supermodel was blindsided is an understatement: Marie's shock remains palpable today, as, just three weeks after undergoing surgery, she reveals her news — and the maelstrom of emotions it has unleashed — for the first time.
She points out that it is only three months since we last met, when I interviewed her in the wake of her candid revelation on a podcast that her diminishing savings meant she would not rule out working in a supermarket if she had to.
I think it is at least a year's recovery time post breast cancer diagnosis, so I certainly won't be making any decisions till then,' she says. ‘I'd already started to get rid of stuff, but now I wouldn't want to be without the NHS, and I want to be able to see my surgeon.
‘Maybe I do need to open myself up to something in future.' Neither Mick nor any of the other A-Listers Marie has encountered over the years was aware that her surgery was scheduled for the middle of November — five weeks after her diagnosis, during which time she had several more hospital appointments.
‘But now, sometimes I just sit in bed and cry for no reason. Even after everything, there is part of me that can't believe it happened. No one can explain to me why it did.
It is just one of those things.'
When I came out I was in such shock that I couldn't stop crying.' Ten days later, Marie was called back to the breast clinic to receive her results, Pelion greece taxi fare to airport again electing to attend the appointment on her own, believing that should it be bad news she would cope better alone. ‘I was squeezing the hand of the nurse so hard, I was afraid I was going to break her hand.
‘One of the things I read is that when you go to get your results, if it's serious, there will be a Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist alongside the doctor. ‘By then I had done a lot of Googling,' she says. So the minute I was called in and saw that woman, I knew I was in trouble.
After all, taxi Meteora to airport price there is no escaping the fact that the woman whose distinctive beauty — courtesy of her American GI father and Pelion greece taxi fare to airport Japanese mother — has bewitched everyone from photographer David Bailey, her husband for ten years, to the late Mark Shand, brother of Camilla, the Queen Consort, has had to face her ordeal alone.
My surgeon believes we can take a managed risk and leave it for now. Not such good news is that there is still something small in the skin,' she says. ‘Normally it would be treated with radiotherapy, but because my skin is so thin it would burn.
But it never actually occurred to me that this could happen to me.' She admits that is one reason why, initially, she felt no real sense of urgency when she found a lump while doing the floor exercises she undertakes religiously every day to keep in shape.
Being single and taxi service Meteora greece self-reliant means that Marie has already had to change her plans: when we last met, she had revealed she was planning to retire to her native Hawaii next year, but she has now put those plans on ice.
‘It was a lot to take in. They were also going to have remove some lymph nodes,' she says. I remember coming out of the room and having to take a few minutes to compose myself before I got a Pelion greece taxi fare to airport to take me home.'
