The BFMTV weather reporter announced in mid-February that she was carrying both life and illness.
Suffering from breast cancer and now the mother of a little girl, Virgilia Hess gave an interview to the daily
Le Parisien
in which she gives her news for the first time since her birth on March 6.
And if her little girl, Léna-Rose, is doing very well, she explains that her medical situation questioned her during her pregnancy.
“
The illness and the chemo had no effect on her.
I was immediately reassured: the placental barrier is a real protection for the baby.
I was also afraid of transmitting to her my stress, my anger, my sadness... The delivery was idyllic, a month prematurely, but she is catching up well.
She has good cheeks
!” she says.
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Before continuing: “
Unfortunately, I cannot breastfeed him because of the chemo.
But for the rest,
I am a happy mother, my spouse helps me a lot, my parents are not far away,
I am lucky to be very well surrounded.
Which is not the case for many women I talk
to
.
And it is also for this reason that the weather presenter decided to publicize her illness, to make her “medical coming out” as she calls it.
“Talking about my cancer helps me”
“
Having cancer at 32
is already hard, but being pregnant is extremely rare!
Between 0.05 and 0.1% of cases, I should have played the lottery…
”, ironically the young woman.
However, the first moments of her pregnancy were not fun.
“
When I arrived at my first chemo with my belly rounded, I felt like a freak.
I needed to write what I felt.
First for me, on my computer.
This allowed me to put a lot of complicated moments into perspective.
“Then she decided to tell her whole story, her doubts and her sorrows through Instagram publications.
"Talking about my cancer helps me and other women
," she told the newspaper.
The fight for her is not over.
Next step, at the end of July a “
lumpectomy to
eliminate the tumor
and remove what remains around
”.
She will continue with “
radiotherapy sessions
at the end of the summer
”.
Resolutely optimistic, Virgilia Hess maintains “
that
it could have been worse
and that it will get better
”
.