Current:Home > Invest'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert shaves her head with her daughter's help amid cancer battle-InfoLens
'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert shaves her head with her daughter's help amid cancer battle
View Date:2024-12-23 15:15:58
"Baywatch" alum Nicole Eggert is shaving her head amid her breast cancer battle.
In a video posted to her Instagram Thursday, Eggert used a pair of clippers to buzz her head bald several months after she revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in an episode of her Perfectly Twisted with Nicole Eggert podcast.
Eggert smiled at the camera before picking up the clippers.
"Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves but allowing ourselves to be who we are - Madeleine Eames," Eggert captioned the heartfelt post, in which she shaved off her locks to the tune of the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right."
The star's 12-year-old daughter, Keegen, helped shave Eggert's head before the actress took over again. The video ended with Eggert rubbing her head before photos appeared of the mother-daughter duo embracing.
Three weeks ago, Eggert posted a video of a hairstylist cutting her hair into a pixie cut, writing on Instagram, "Stay one step ahead of ur fears and u will never be defeated." She added, "Thank u to @michelledavidhair for laughing along with me and giving me this cute new do when I was just going to shave it all off 💕."
'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert revealsbreast cancer diagnosis: 'Something I have to beat'
Nicole Eggert's 'heart dropped' after she felt a lump in her breast
Eggert, who played Summer Quinn in the early '90s on "Baywatch," told People magazine in January that she was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.
"Listen, I cried, I went to the deepest darkest thoughts. I’ve really been through it," she said on her podcast, which came out the same day as her People interview.
"But I'm through to the other side. I've found a great oncologist that I really like," Eggert said at the time. "I'm doing all further testing this week. ... We're doing every MRI, CT, ultrasound scan, everything you can do."
"I have a road ahead of me," she added.
Eggert said she was religious about getting "my mammograms, like clockwork, every December," but confessed on her podcast that she doesn’t "normally" do breast self-exams, instead relying on her annual gynecologist appointments.
"I just don't bother," she said, because "I have these dreaded implants – that, you know, it's my biggest regret in life – but I have them and it can kind of get in the way if you're doing your own self-exam."
When she started feeling "a lot of pain" on her left side around fall 2023, she examined her breasts. "In the shower, I was doing the exam and I felt it and my heart dropped," she said. Eggert said a friend, who was her general practitioner, encouraged her to get a mammogram after the actress discovered the lump.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson
veryGood! (41298)
Related
- Burger King is giving away a million Whoppers for $1: Here's how to get one
- Toilet paper not expected to see direct impacts from port strike: 'People need to calm down'
- McDonald's new Big Mac isn't a burger, it's a Chicken Big Mac. Here's when to get one
- Greening of Antarctica is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent
- My Chemical Romance returns with ‘The Black Parade’ tour
- Catfish Host Kamie Crawford Leaving MTV Show After 6 Years
- Marshawn Lynch is 'College GameDay' guest picker for Cal-Miami: Social media reacts
- On the road: Plenty of NBA teams mixing the grind of training camp with resort life
- West Virginia governor-elect Morrisey to be sworn in mid-January
- Simone Biles Reveals Truth of Calf Injury at 2024 Paris Olympics
Ranking
- COINIXIAI Introduce
- Subway rider shot in the head by police files claim accusing officers of recklessly opening fire
- For migrant women who land in Colorado looking for jobs, a common answer emerges: No
- Armed person broke into Michigan home of rabbi hosting Jewish students, authorities say
- Love Is Blind’s Chelsea Blackwell Reacts to Megan Fox’s Baby News
- The Fate of That '90s Show Revealed After Season 2
- For migrant women who land in Colorado looking for jobs, a common answer emerges: No
- Helene’s powerful storm surge killed 12 near Tampa. They didn’t have to die
Recommendation
-
Wicked's Ethan Slater Shares How Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Set the Tone on Set
-
Phillies vs. Mets schedule: 2024 NLDS is first postseason showdown between rivals
-
McDonald's new Big Mac isn't a burger, it's a Chicken Big Mac. Here's when to get one
-
Tia Mowry Sets the Record Straight on Relationship With Sister Tamera Mowry
-
Diamond Sports Group can emerge out of bankruptcy after having reorganization plan approved
-
Subway rider shot in the head by police files claim accusing officers of recklessly opening fire
-
6 migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras die near Guatemalan border after Mexican soldiers open fire
-
Hawaii nurses union calls new contract a step in the right direction