REPLAY: Nicole Eggert on Breast Cancer, Menopause & Learning to Love Her Body

REPLAY: Nicole Eggert on Breast Cancer, Menopause & Learning to Love Her Body We’re bringing back one of our favorite conversations with actress and breast cancer advocate Nicole Eggert. If you missed it the first time—or need to hear it again—this candid conversation about breast cancer, medically induced menopause, body image, and life after treatment is worth a replay. Best known for Baywatch, Nicole Eggert joins Chris and Jenny to share the reality behind her stage 2 cribriform breast cancer diagnosis, a rare form of breast cancer that completely changed her relationship with her health and her body. Nicole opens up about discovering a breast lump, learning her cancer was estrogen-positive, and going from expecting a lumpectomy to facing chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, breast reconstruction, radiation, and medically induced menopause. They talk about breast reconstruction decisions, environmental estrogens, fear of recurrence, hormone blockers, hysterectomy, menopause after breast cancer, and the strange emotional transition that happens when active cancer treatment ends. Nicole also shares what it was like promoting a Baywatch documentary while bald and dealing with the physical changes of chemotherapy—and how cancer transformed years of criticizing her body into genuine gratitude for everything it had carried her through. In this episode: Nicole Eggert's breast cancer diagnosis Rare cribriform carcinoma Estrogen-positive breast cancer Chemotherapy, double mastectomy and radiation Breast reconstruction after cancer Medically induced menopause Menopause without HRT after hormone-positive breast cancer Hormone blockers and hysterectomy Fear of breast cancer recurrence Body image during and after cancer treatment Learning to trust and appreciate your body after breast cancer This is a replay of a previously released Boobalicious episode. Follow the show! WeAreBoobalicious.com @BoobaliciiousPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices