Pregnant Virgilia Hess talks about the moment she learned she had breast cancer

In an Instagram post this Thursday, February 23, Virgilia Hess, pregnant with her first child, revealed the different stages of her illness. The 33-year-old is suffering from breast cancer.

While she is pregnant with her first child, Virgilia Hess, BFMTV’s weather miss announced bad news to her subscribers on February 15th. The 33-year-old woman suffers breast cancer. A disease that was diagnosed to him a month earlier. “Summer 2022, 32 years old, I learned that I was going to be a mom for next spring, my life was about to change! It finally tipped earlier than expected, a month ago when I found out I had HER2 positive breast cancer. A baby and cancer… I carried both life and disease. Two completely contradictory things. she said.

Virgilia Hess tells the different stages of her breast cancer

This Thursday, February 23, it is in a series of Instagram posts that Virgilia Hess detailed the different stages of her illness. It all started at the end of 2022 when she went to her obstetrician for a check-up. After checking her breasts, her obstetrician discovered a lump in the left breast of the young woman. The latter was prescribed a prescription for a breast ultrasound to “check it and let’s talk more” says Virgilia Hess in her post. But on her way to her breast ultrasound a few weeks later, Virgilia Hess was panicked at the moment of the diagnosis. Her radiologist called her medical secretary to an appointment as part of a “biopsy”. This one “consists of removing a small amount of tissue from the tumor using a needle under local anesthesia”. About ten days later, and after having had to “support severe pain in the chest and a huge hematoma“, the young woman learned that she had breast cancer.

“If I hadn’t been pregnant, I wouldn’t have had control”

Having felt the extreme need to empty her bag, Virgilia Hess completed her series of posts with a message on Instagram. She also took the opportunity to express her gratitude to the people who support her : “I wanted to share with you the history and the different stages of my illness (…) I take this opportunity once again to tell you how much I was deeply touched by the outpouring of love I received following my post. I was also amazed by the number of women experiencing or having experienced the same thing. All these messages from women confirm my idea that it is necessary to talk about it to raise awareness because far too affected (…) If I hadn’t been pregnant, I wouldn’t have had control because considered “too young”. And this filthy disease might have been discovered too late…”