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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Anastacia has no regrets over her double mastectomy because she "won" against breast cancer

    The 56-year-old pop star battled the disease in her early 30s and by the time she was diagnosed for a second time in 2013, she had "already" decided to undergo the procedure


    Appearing on UK daytime show 'Loose Women' on ITV, she said: "I had already made that decision, if I was lucky enough again to get it early, they're going.

    "I know that's a hard road to go down for a women, but I just wanted to win with cancer, and I was like, I won!"

    The 'I'm Outta Love' hitmaker noted that after the surgery, she "never worried about it again".

    She explained: "The second time, I decided to get a mastectomy, that means it's all gone, I made a very hard choice early.

    "The minute the surgery was complete, I never worried about it again. I did have 15 more surgeries after that surgery to get to where I was clean. But, who cares?"

    She previously suggested she is "probably more famous" for her health struggles than her music.

    She told the Metro newspaper: "I'm probably more famous for having breast cancer - or just about equal as singing.

    "If that has changed people and saved their lives and found stuff early and made them become way more hypervigilant about their health then I think by talking I've helped."

    Anastacia - who also suffers from Crohn's Disease, a lifelong condition where parts of the digestive system become inflamed - admitted at the time that she even struggled using the word cancer during and replaced it with a humorous term in an effort to "find the positive" amid her health woes.

    She said: "It was terrible but you have to find something positive and some moment of humour and I, most of the time, find humour in, not laughing at it to make fun, laughing at it to find the positive. To find the light because laughter is light and negative is dark.

    "When I said the word cancer, it was such a hard word to say. The first three letters are so doable.

    "Instead of saying 'I have cancer,' I would say 'I have toxic t**ties.' I'm very grateful. If my honesty helped another person I'd do it again and again."

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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