Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago.
Macpherson, 60, opened up about her secret battle with the disease and explained why she turned down receiving chemotherapy in an interview with Australian Women's Weekly.
She recounted how she was diagnosed after undergoing a lumpectomy and her doctor suggested "a mastectomy with radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, plus reconstruction of her breast", according to the magazine.
She told Women’s Weekly: "It was a shock, it was unexpected, it was confusing, it was daunting in so many ways.
"And it really gave me an opportunity to dig deep in my inner sense to find a solution that worked for me…
"I realised I was going to need my own truth, my belief system to support me through it. And that’s what I did.
"So, it was a wonderful exercise in being true to myself, trusting myself and trusting the nature of my body and the course of action that I had chosen."
The model instead opted for "an intuitive, heart-led, holistic approach" to treating her cancer which used a "combination of therapies and lifestyle changes to treat and heal the whole person", the magazine said.
Macpherson, who rose to fame in the 1980s appearing in magazines such as Sports Illustrated and Playboy, has also delved into how her non-pharmaceutical approach is not for everyone in her new eponymously titled book.
"I came to the understanding that there was no sure thing and absolutely no guarantees. There was no 'right’ way, just the right way for me", she writes in her book, according to Women’s Weekly.
Source: Press Association
