The actress started crying while discussing her ongoing battle with breast cancer in a video filmed from her car.
“OK so I just got out of my CT scan — mapping, as they call it — for my radiation treatment and when they said they were gonna tattoo me … I didn’t realize it was actual, real tattoos, so I was tatted,” Eggert, 52, explained while filming in her car.
“It’s nothing but dots, but boy, every step of this process is never gonna let you forget it. There’s just always going to be a constant reminder,” she continued. “So yeah, I have tattoos. My mom’s gonna be really proud of my neck tattoo, But that’s OK, that’s OK.”“The rest is gonna have to just be me working on myself and how I’m gonna get through it and ignore these new tattoos that I have,” she admitted.“They’re gonna CT scans and they call it imaging and tattooing of my organs,” she explained. “It’s so that when they shoot the radiation into me, they can hopefully miss most of the vital organs.
“My father had it on his brain, he had tumors in his brain, and after the first treatment, he was not the same person anymore,” she shared.she got when she was 18 to look better on screen for “Baywatch” as one of the potential causes of her cancer.
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