Why we CHOSE TO ‘GO FLAT’
‘I VOWED TO EMBRACE MY BODY AND HONOUR IT’
Helen Doyle, 51, from Midhurst, West Sussex
Standing naked in front of the mirror one morning, I was muttering to myself about how much I hated the way I looked. Suddenly, it crossed my mind how upsetting it would be if my breasts could hear me – and how ungrateful I sounded about my amazing body. My breasts, for example, had fed my three hungry sons as newborns, and had recently survived the gruelling ordeal of breast cancer.
In that moment I vowed to embrace my body and honour it, however imperfect it looked. It wasn’t going to be easy though…
I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer a year before, after my first- ever mammogram. Fortunately it had been caught early, but I needed a mastectomy to remove my right breast. My surgeon discussed a simultaneous reconstruction with
