EXCLUSIVE: Real Housewives of Cheshire star Nermina Pieters-Mekic was given her heart-breaking cancer diagnosis aged just 33, and had to face the possibility of not seeing her daughter Alaya grow up
Despite feeling emotionally and physically drained as she undergoes gruelling treatment for breast cancer, former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Nermina Pieters-Mekic wants to share her story in the hope it might “save a life”.
She continued: “One night when I couldn’t sleep I sat in Alaya’s nursery. I looked at her height chart on the wall, and thought, ‘What if I’m not here to witness this in a few years? What if I don’t see her grow up?’ They couldn’t do all the checks because I was pregnant so I kept thinking, ‘I’ll never forgive myself for not seeing Alaya grow up.’”
“I never in my wildest dreams thought this would happen to me. I never get ill, I eat a good diet, I exercise with my horses, I barely drink, I’m very healthy. But cancer doesn’t discriminate. One in seven women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and a lot of those will be young women. As well as showing us her chemotherapy port fitted under the skin on her chest and removing her cap to reveal her thinning hair, she opens up about what has been the most difficult part of her whole experience – the pregnancy.
“I was looking around, and the doctor was saying all these things to me, and I have no clue what he said. When he stopped, I said, ‘I’m pregnant’, and he told me, ‘That changes everything.’” “We visited a clinic to see what our options were with the pregnancy. Could the embryo be frozen as it was still so early? Could I freeze my eggs too? But when we returned to my doctor for a follow-up appointment, he confirmed that in one week, the lump had grown and that delaying the treatment would not be good.”
“I told Nermina from the start I would always be open and honest, and ask questions. No one expects this to happen, but when it does you can’t change it, you have to face it. And there’s no better way to face it than to face it together.” “I’m trying to accept things as they happen,” says Nermina. “You have to take the good days and go with the bad days.”
Ever the optimist, Nermina is currently compiling a mood board of pixie cuts and short shaggy styles that she wants to try further down the line – and there’s even a peroxide blonde look in there! “It’s going to be a long journey and I have to remind myself how lucky I am that I found it early and that I’ve got my family around me. It’s a challenge, but I can do it.”
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