(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 06 - "Mum is having surgery because she loves life too much. So I told Mia and I also tell you. Thursday 8 December 2022, at 11.00 in Los Angeles, for the umpteenth time Bianca chooses life" .
With these words in a long ex-offer newsletter, entitled Loss of feeling and addressed to her followers, Bianca Balti announces that she is about to undergo a preventive double mastectomy, after having discovered some time ago that she has the BRCA1 genetic mutation, which exponentially increases the risk of contracting cancer breast and/or ovaries.
The same as Angelina Jolie, who in fact did the same surgery years ago.
The 38-year-old top model from Lodi lists the reasons that led her to the painful choice.
"Because I can't afford to get sick as I carry, alone, the economic responsibility of everyone on my shoulders. Because I would like my girls - she writes - to find in me the strength to act if one day they too are diagnosed. Because I love life too much not to do everything possible to preserve it. I felt proud to set a date, impatient to wait. But now that the moment has come I don't want to. I feel fragile. Afraid of having to depend on others.
Terrified of the pain I will feel. Disheartened to have to give up
a part of my body that has defined my femininity to date. Two days to go."
She (ANSA).
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