Current:Home > News'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert shaves her head with her daughter's help amid cancer battle -Prime Money Path
'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert shaves her head with her daughter's help amid cancer battle
View
Date:2025-04-16 11:52:25
"Baywatch" alum Nicole Eggert is shaving her head amid her breast cancer battle.
In a video posted to her Instagram Thursday, Eggert used a pair of clippers to buzz her head bald several months after she revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in an episode of her Perfectly Twisted with Nicole Eggert podcast.
Eggert smiled at the camera before picking up the clippers.
"Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves but allowing ourselves to be who we are - Madeleine Eames," Eggert captioned the heartfelt post, in which she shaved off her locks to the tune of the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right."
The star's 12-year-old daughter, Keegen, helped shave Eggert's head before the actress took over again. The video ended with Eggert rubbing her head before photos appeared of the mother-daughter duo embracing.
Three weeks ago, Eggert posted a video of a hairstylist cutting her hair into a pixie cut, writing on Instagram, "Stay one step ahead of ur fears and u will never be defeated." She added, "Thank u to @michelledavidhair for laughing along with me and giving me this cute new do when I was just going to shave it all off 💕."
'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert revealsbreast cancer diagnosis: 'Something I have to beat'
Nicole Eggert's 'heart dropped' after she felt a lump in her breast
Eggert, who played Summer Quinn in the early '90s on "Baywatch," told People magazine in January that she was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.
"Listen, I cried, I went to the deepest darkest thoughts. I’ve really been through it," she said on her podcast, which came out the same day as her People interview.
"But I'm through to the other side. I've found a great oncologist that I really like," Eggert said at the time. "I'm doing all further testing this week. ... We're doing every MRI, CT, ultrasound scan, everything you can do."
"I have a road ahead of me," she added.
Eggert said she was religious about getting "my mammograms, like clockwork, every December," but confessed on her podcast that she doesn’t "normally" do breast self-exams, instead relying on her annual gynecologist appointments.
"I just don't bother," she said, because "I have these dreaded implants – that, you know, it's my biggest regret in life – but I have them and it can kind of get in the way if you're doing your own self-exam."
When she started feeling "a lot of pain" on her left side around fall 2023, she examined her breasts. "In the shower, I was doing the exam and I felt it and my heart dropped," she said. Eggert said a friend, who was her general practitioner, encouraged her to get a mammogram after the actress discovered the lump.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson
veryGood! (449)
Related
- Who are the most valuable sports franchises? Forbes releases new list of top 50 teams
- DePaul and athletic director DeWayne Peevy agree to a contract extension through June 2027
- Olivia Rodrigo Denies Taylor Swift Feud Amid Conspiracy Theories
- Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes Jump Heartfirst Into PDA During Red Hot Date Night at 2023 MTV VMAs
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- Book excerpt: Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
- Sophia Culpo Seemingly Debuts New Romance After Braxton Berrios Drama
- Jets QB Aaron Rodgers has torn left Achilles tendon, AP source says. He’s likely to miss the season
- McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
- Michigan State won't reveal oversight measures put in place for Mel Tucker after harassment report
Ranking
- Jorge Ramos reveals his final day with 'Noticiero Univision': 'It's been quite a ride'
- France’s Foreign Ministry says one of its officials has been arrested in military-run Niger
- Kourtney Kardashian Declares Hatred for Witch Kim Kardashian in New Kardashians Trailer
- 16 years after the iPhone's launch, why Apple continues to play a huge role in our lives
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- Bebe Rexha to attend MTV Video Music Awards after voicing anxiety, weight scrutiny concerns
- Investigation shows armed officer was hostage at home of Grammy winner who was killed by police
- College football bowl projections: How Texas Longhorns may be back and make playoff field
Recommendation
All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
Even Taylor Swift Can't Help But Fangirl Over *NSYNC at the MTV VMAs
Columbus Blue Jackets coach Mike Babcock, Boone Jenner dispute privacy violation accusation
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes Jump Heartfirst Into PDA During Red Hot Date Night at 2023 MTV VMAs
Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
Family, friends gather to celebrate Rowan Wilson’s ascension to chief judge of New York
Life After Rodgers: New York Jets prepare for changes following Aaron Rodgers' injury
Savannah Chrisley Reacts to Parents Julie and Todd Chrisley's Prison Sentences Being Reduced