“It hurts me, it makes me gain weight, it makes my hair fall out… there are better times to be had.” Carla Bruni talks about her post-cancer treatment.

A top model for several decades, the former first lady of France, Carla Bruni, nevertheless remains subject to the same trials as many women. Among them, breast cancer. He revealed on his Instagram account on October 4, 2023 that he was hurt, and recently “Allez J’ose!” In the podcast, he talked about his illness and the treatment he has to follow after cancer.

“I believe that diseases thrive in silence”

In the podcast, Carla Bruni says that she tried to find out the causes of diseases. He wanted to understand. “I believe that diseases thrive in silence,” he begins. “I wanted to know if it had something to do with my lifestyle, the hormones I’ve taken in my life, my second child, which I had at 44.” His doctor says very clearly. women who have never taken the pill or never smoked suffer from the same disease as her. Blame it on bad luck or life’s dirty lottery. Carla Bruni is living her cancer away from the media. Apart from his close circle, no one knows what he is going through. Until her Instagram post in early pink October. “I posted because I told myself that it’s virtually impossible for at least one woman to see this post and not go get a mammogram. I had a bit of a fight thanks to the show. Screening is really fundamental, every year.” If she hadn’t had a mammogram and her cancer hadn’t been cured at that stage, she explains, in addition to radiation and hormone therapy and surgery, she would have had to lose her left breast and undergo chemotherapy.

Hormonal therapy, its post-cancer treatment

Hormone therapy is an oncology treatment for hormone-dependent cancers, such as breast cancer. “It’s an active drug that shrinks tumors, causing the cells to disappear,” the former model explains. After a cancer like I had, hormone therapy is prescribed for 5 to 7 years. It’s a pill you have to take every day. I bless hormone therapy. I took it tough the first two years. It hurts me, it makes me gain weight, it makes my hair fall out… there are better times to be had. One day a friend told her that her mother, too old for surgery or chemotherapy, had a relapse of the same disease and that hormone therapy was saving her life. “Again it’s all about the life angle, I suddenly saw what he meant and said to myself, every morning i will take her happily. I believe that joy begets joy (…). I’ll tell you, I’m digesting it better.” This treatment, even in a good mood, does not erase all his fears. “I wake up very restless sometimes, but I use few techniques and they work. I was very afraid (of death, editor’s note) until it whistled in my ears. And there I tried to take it easy,” he concludes with a laugh.