06 December 2022 1:46 pm
The model was diagnosed with a BRCA1 genetic mutation
The diagnosis of genetic mutation BRCA1
Bianca Balti, 38 years old, he had received the diagnosis of a genetic mutation (BRCA) and had decided to intervene. Now she is terrified, but she informs her followers of everything: “I will be hospitalized for the preventive removal of the breast tissue. And now that I can no longer draw back, selfishly, I turn to you. To be told how brave I am, that I’m doing the right thing, that I inspire you. Because I’ve lost the feeling that brought me here; I lost myself in self-pity”.
Bianca is determined and self-confident
“For years I thought myself closest to death, when I’ve always been an undaunted warrior of life. My will to fight has always been directly proportional to the difficulties that afflicted me. No one has ever forced me; I have always chosen to exist”.
Egg retrieval
It will certainly not be the BRCA that will stop Bianca Balti’s dreams. A few months ago, the model from Lodi underwent a cycle of ovarian stimulation. Her eggs have been retrieved Why if she wanted to be a mother in the future this possibility will not be precluded to you despite the intervention you are preparing to make. Bianca Balti is already Matilde and Mia’s mother. The eldest daughter was born from the model’s marriage to the photographer Christian Lucidi. Mia, on the other hand, is the result of the model’s second marriage, those with Matthew McRae shipwrecked after six months of yes.
Fear
“A few months ago I wrote in a BRCA1 newsletter, the genetic mutation that I was diagnosed with and which exponentially increases my risk of contracting breast and/or ovarian cancer. Changed women like me began to write to me from all over Italy and even from abroad, thanking me for giving voice to a prognosis unknown to most… I refused interviews in newspapers and interventions on television. I eclipsed myself overnight on the subject,” she writes in his letter. But now the decision has come. “I undergo a preventive double mastectomy. Because I can’t afford to get sick as I carry, alone, the economic responsibility of everyone on my shoulders. Because I would like my girls to find in me the strength to act if one day they too are diagnosed. Because I love life too much not to do what I can to preserve it. I felt proud to set a date, impatient to wait. But now that the time has come I don’t feel like it. I feel fragile. Scared of having to depend on others. Terrified of the pain I will feel. Disheartened in having to give up a part of my body that has defined my femininity until today”.
