“The road is not easy.” Carla Bruni talks about her battle with breast cancer

In 2019, Carla Bruni was diagnosed with breast cancer. If the 56-year-old former model took some time to talk about it, she doesn’t hide it anymore. Moreover, this year she also participates in the “Pink October” awareness campaign on social networks, a symbolic event in the fight against breast cancer. In a post published on her Instagram page this Friday, October 11, Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife confides in front of the camera about her story and takes the opportunity to urge her subscribers to get tested.

“I’m lucky”

“Four years ago I was diagnosed with hormone-dependent breast cancer,” she begins. Surgery, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy… The road is not easy, but I was lucky.” Before adding. “Why was I lucky? Because my cancer was so small. Why was my cancer so small? Because every year in October I have a mammogram.”

At the end of the video, Carla Bruni wants to remind those who listen to what she thinks are three important things. “One in eight women will get breast cancer, that’s 12 percent of the female population,” she says. And the third thing I’d like to say to you is, get your mammogram. And to conclude. “I’m counting on you.”

A few months ago in the magazine columns Vanity Fair the singer had already returned, philosophically, to the beginnings of her diagnosis. “Cancer opens new doors. We can still hear the bullets whizzing past his ear. And once you get over the initial shock, it’s practically invigorating, even if it’s painful and worrisome and disturbing,” she confided to our colleagues, before revealing that she’s still undergoing treatment for her illness and “wasn’t in remission at all.” .

Recall that Santé Publique France invites women aged 50 to 74 to undergo a screening mammogram every two years, supplementing the clinical breast examination.