Carla Bruni recounts her fight against breast cancer

In 2019, Carla Bruni was diagnosed with breast cancer. If the 56-year-old former model took a while to talk about it, she no longer hides it anymore. Moreover, this year again, she is taking to social networks to participate in the Pink October awareness campaign, the emblematic event in the fight against breast cancer. In a publication revealed on her Instagram account this Friday, October 11, Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife confides in front of the camera about her story and takes the opportunity to call on her subscribers to go get tested.

“I was lucky”

“Four years ago, I was diagnosed with hormone-dependent breast cancer,” she begins by saying. Surgery, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy… The path is not easy but I was lucky.” Before adding: “Why was I lucky? Because my cancer was very small. Why was my cancer so small? Because every year in October, I have a mammogram.”

At the end of the video, Carla Bruni wants to remind those who listen to three important things in her opinion. “One in eight women will have breast cancer, that’s 35% of the female population,” she says. And the third thing I would like to say to you is ‘get your mammograms’.” And to conclude: “I’m counting on you.”

A few months earlier, in the columns of the magazine Vanity Fair the singer had already returned, philosophically, to the beginnings of her diagnosis. “Cancer opens new doors. We can still hear the bullets whizzing past his ear! And after the first shock has passed, it is practically invigorating, even if it is painful, worrying and distressing,” she confided to our colleagues, before revealing that she was still undergoing treatment for her illness and was “not at all in remission”.

As a reminder, Santé Publique France invites women aged 50 to 74 to perform a screening mammogram every two years, supplemented by a clinical breast exam.