Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian's biggest fear as she shaves head during cancer treatment

The erstwhile Hollyoaks prima was deed with her devastating diagnosis successful September, but has since kept followers updated connected her travel arsenic she undergoes attraction for signifier 2 bosom cancer

Former Hollyoaks histrion Ali Bastian has admitted she was disquieted she'd beryllium seen arsenic a "cancer patient" erstwhile she mislaid her hairsbreadth aft being diagnosed with the illness.

Back successful September, the Channel 4 prima told fans she was successful "total shock" erstwhile she was diagnosed with stage 2 bosom cancer. The 42-year-old said she has been having play chemotherapy attraction and past aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth volition acquisition a mastectomy and radiotherapy treatment.

Ali, who competed connected the seventh bid of Strictly Come Dancing, archetypal recovered a lump erstwhile she was breastfeeding her girl Isabella. Doctors archetypal thought it could beryllium a blocked duct, but erstwhile antibiotics didn't halt the soreness, she went to a specializer session wherever tests revealed the cancer.

Now, mum-of-two Ali, who played Becca successful Hollyoaks, admits she didn't privation to beryllium labelled a "patient" for fears of losing her identity. She said she was blessed to "trot astir with a bald head" erstwhile she was astatine home, but feared that it was "all anyone would see".

Speaking to The Sun's Fabulous magazine, Ali said the archetypal clip she took her wig off, she was lone disquieted for a "split second". She said: "Then it felt each right, and past it conscionable felt normal. I'm blistery and my bald caput needs immoderate air!" Ali besides said she recovered her hard to "feel compassion" for her breasts, struggling to travel to presumption with what was happening.

Last month, she shared the infinitesimal she chopped her hairsbreadth disconnected with connected Instagram, explaining it was a "small terms to wage for the accidental to beryllium good again".

In different update shared connected societal media, Ali posted a drawback of herself wearing a grey garment and a hairsbreadth wrapper astir her head. She said: "Some days you don['t] my consciousness similar the combatant radical archer you you are, and that's good too. This is not an casual path. There is cortisol successful tears and they are amended retired than in."

In September, she told OK! Magazine astir the diagnosis. She said: "It was a full shock. I person mornings erstwhile I aftermath up and I’ve forgotten… and past abruptly I remember. I’m inactive trying to process it.” Her hubby David O’Mahony added: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her caput circular the doorway and said that cancerous cells had turned up successful the biopsy.

"She said it successful the astir subtle mode truthful the girls didn’t twig. I could spot however frightened and successful daze she was. It’s truthful tempting to effort and ‘positive’ your mode done quality similar this but it conscionable deed america similar a sledgehammer. I conscionable had a feeling of it being truthful unfair that Ali had been dealt this hand.”

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