"Until next June…" : Virgilia Hess opens up about her long fight against cancer

While she learned of her breast cancer in the summer of 2022, while pregnant, weather journalist Virgilia Hess continues to fight against the disease as she announced during an invitation on the set of BFMTV for Pink October.

This is the essential topic of the month: breast cancer on the occasion of the international and annual Pink October campaign. More and more people are speaking out on this subject and women who previously might have kept their illness to themselves are now talking about it. It helped that celebrities spoke out on this subject: Évelyne Dhéliat, Alice Detollenaere and Caroline Receveur. There are more and more testimonies from famous women affected by this disease. Among them, we can also cite the striking story of Virgilia Hess. Weather journalist on BFMTV in the channel’s pre-morning since 2019, it was last February that the young woman announced that she had breast cancer. In the same message, she also announced that she had learned of her pregnancy at the same time.

A long fight started in the summer of 2022

“Summer 2022, 32 years old, I learned that I was going to be a mother next spring, my life was going to change! It finally changed earlier than expected”, she wrote in fact. Having become a mother seven months ago, the journalist, already at a well-advanced stage in her pregnancy, began to receive treatment and then chemotherapy treatments continued once the birth of her daughter occurred. An operation and targeted therapy in particular. But the fight is long and several months later, the young woman continues to fight. Now aged 33, she was invited this Wednesday evening on BFM to discuss her situation: the way in which she learned of her cancer during an examination during her pregnancy, her young age but also where she is today. Invited on her channel and interviewed by Olivier Truchot, Virgilia Hess gave news of her current state of health and the announced continuation of her treatment.

A grueling program for Virgilia Hess

“It’s not finished. I have 12 more chemos planned every three weeks until next June. And at the same time radiotherapy starting next week, and that’s from Monday to Friday for six weeks.”, explained the journalist. A long journey which still awaits the young woman who has been transparent about the moral significance of this ordeal: “Yes, I’m keeping my spirits up, I’m trying. But it’s a very, very long time. It’s trying. So we have the impression that no. I have so much to say. That’s also the A slightly difficult side with breast cancer and cancer in general is that when you are a young woman like me, you want to get ready, so you don’t see it. It’s a bit of a challenge. invisible disability sometimes.” Very recently, this Wednesday, October 4, it was the former first lady Carla Bruni who made a revelation, admitting that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago and had not wanted to talk about it publicly.