On July 25, 2023,
Caroline Receveur
announced on her Instagram account that she had breast cancer.
Eight months later, the 36-year-old entrepreneur came to testify about her fight against illness with Léa Salamé in
“What a time!
"
on France 2.
"I didn't experience it as a punishment or a sledgehammer, I was very lucid.
I had a lot of anxieties, fears and fears
,” she said.
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Even though she did not present any potential risk factor for developing the disease - she does not smoke, does not drink alcohol and has no family history - Caroline Receveur believes she was consumed by stress.
Reviewing a short summary of her videos shared on her social networks in recent weeks, the influencer was overcome by emotion.
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“I never told myself that I was sick”
Caroline Receveur
“These are images where I am not sad when I cry
,” she said with tears in her eyes as she saw the nurses who took care of her.
“I don't take much negative from everything that happened, I have a somewhat singular vision of what happened to me.
It was a life experience that I lived to the fullest.
»
Over the last eight months, Caroline Receveur has undergone treatment with six sessions of chemotherapy and a mastectomy followed by a protocol combining one year of immunotherapy and five years of hormone therapy.
Mother of a little boy aged 5 and a half, the former host of NRJ12 says she spoke to him about her cancer
“with simple words”
.
“I never told myself that I was sick.
I had something to get rid of from my body
,” she explained, emphasizing the psychological mechanism she associated with medical care.
“I explained to Marlon that I had a little lump in my breast, that I had to take medicine to get rid of it, that I was going to be a little tired and that I was going to shave my head.
» By adding a funny reference to play down the drama:
“like that, I was going to look like Kylian Mbappé”
.
Caroline Receveur's emotion was particularly strong when she spoke of the
"wave of love, humanity and support"
that she received from people via her social networks.