Nicole Eggert has undergone a mastectomy and breast reconstruction amid her battle with breast cancer.
The “Baywatch” actress, 53, revealed the health update in a post on Instagram Thursday.
“Had a mastectomy with reconstruction on Thursday. How was ur weekend?” Eggert penned beneath a selfie in a black sports bra and underwear.
Her friends took to the comments section to share their well wishes for the “Charles in Charge” vet.
Fellow “Baywatch” alum, Carmen Electra, wrote, “get it babe 🔥🔥,” while Erika Eleniak chimed in, “Damn, Nicole. You are fierce ❤️❤️.”
One fan shared, “Sending so many healing vibes and hope your healing day by day! Every surgery, every treatment, is a new day, this marks another step in your healing,” while a second social media user expressed, “You are a warrior!!! Praying for you every day!”
Last August, Eggert told People that she’s “good,” but “I am in sort of a gray area and I finished my treatment, waiting for more imaging and hopefully maybe surgery.”
She noted that the “waiting” and “gray area is the hardest because you don’t know what’s happening … when I’m doing treatment, I felt like I was doing something productive.”
“So it felt positive and I was like, okay, I’m doing something positive,” continued Eggert. “And now that it’s just like nothing, it’s like, well wait a minute. We got to get this out. So it’s just frustrating.”
The ’90s star first announced her December 2023 breast cancer diagnosis in a January 2024 interview.
Eggert told People that she had “terrible pain” in her left breast and gained 25 lbs. in three months.
“It really was throbbing and hurting,” she recounted. “I immediately went to my general practitioner and she told me I had to immediately go get it looked at. But the problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done.”
After a discovery mammogram and three biopsies, Eggert was told she had stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.
“This journey’s been rough for me. This hasn’t been a breezy sale through life,” she admitted. “I always read inspirational quotes and corny stuff, but it gets me through.”
Eggert’s father battled skin cancer and her mother battled colon cancer.
Now, she said her “biggest fear” is not being there for her daughters, Keegan, 14, and Dilyn, 27.
“It immediately made me realize, ‘There’s just no succumbing to this. This is something I have to get through. This is something that I have to beat. She needs me more than anything and anybody,’” she shared.
In December, Eggert recalled the warning signs she missed before receiving her breast cancer diagnosis.
At first, the “Who’s the Boss” alum chalked her symptoms up to menopause.
“I went for my yearly mammograms and my ultrasounds. I have dense breast tissue. So I was doing what I was supposed to be doing,” Eggert told Fox News Digital. “One thing I think back on is that suddenly my bra size — and this is something that recently kind of dawned on me — my bra kept moving and was fitting a little bit lopsided for a long time.”
“What I thought was, you know, our breast tissue is always growing and changing and as women, our breasts move, and gravity hits and all that. So, I kind of chalked it up to that,” she continued.
Eggert also warned others to be vigilant.
“I think people really need to start living a disease-preventative lifestyle. That’s No. 1. It’s very hard to be healthy here in America. It’s just a fact,” she confessed to the outlet at the Women’s Cancer Research Fund Gala in April.
“I do believe it’s preventable, but if you do find yourself with the diagnosis, I think it’s about using modern medicine along with lifestyle changes and all the other things that you can do to prevent disease. And it’s a lot. … There’s just so much more you can and should be doing.”
