"I'm goooood! The operation went well, I was in pain when I woke up, they gave me some stuff for the pain and now I'm in my room. I also have a television and I also have a crucifix. Guys
, nothing, I just wanted to give you an update, I'm very happy… that's it, I will continue to give you updates even if you don't give a damn".
Bianca Balti, in a series of keeping stories on her social networks, is updating her numerous followers on her health conditions after undergoing a preventive double mastectomy at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in California in the past few hours.
The supermodel also says that she is understandably tired and that she is "very hungry": "I would eat hamburgers and fries, but like 5!"
she says jokingly and showing the miserable jelly that she has to make do with for medical reasons after the operation.
The 38-year-old supermodel discovered some time ago that she has the BRCA1 genetic mutation, which exponentially increases the risk of contracting breast and/or ovarian cancer.
It is the same mutation that Angelina Jolie has and that led her to make the same decision a few years ago.
Balti had announced the operation on social media, explaining that she loved life "too much not to do everything possible to preserve it" and that she wanted her girls to find in her "the strength to act if one day they too were diagnosed" .
In a very sincere way, she had not hidden that she felt "fragile and frightened by the idea of having to depend on others".
Shortly before the operation, the model also published photos of her Playboy cover writing: "An ode to my boobs that have given me a lot of satisfaction and I'm sure they will continue to do so" and also a shot as she entered the room surgery with the message: "Very Ready to reduce my risk of contracting breast cancer by 95%.
(HANDLE).