Bridget Bahl is opening up about being diagnosed with breast cancer. The New York- and Dallas-based fashion and lifestyle influencer, who is married to plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Chiodo, announced in an emotional video Sept.
22 that she received the diagnosis "a few weeks ago" while undergoing her sixth retrieval for IVF. “I was maybe two or three days into the shots, and I had the routine bloodwork, sonogram with my doctor, and I told him I had felt something in my breast,” said Bahl, 41, adding that her fertility specialist insisted they stop the process so Bahl could get imaging done on her breast. “He got me in in like a day or two and I was completely convinced that it was fine, it was just a cyst and it was from the hormones.
I really did not feel worried about it. I felt great,” she continued. After Bahl underwent a mammogram and a sonogram, a physician showed her that the images revealed a .
"She looked me in the eye and she said, 'Bridget, I have been doing this for a long time, and I do not like what I see,'" Bahl went on. The physician encouraged Bahl to undergo a biopsy the same day. “The next day she called me and unfortunately confirmed that I do have breast cancer and that it has spread to a lymph node,” said Bahl.
Though Bahl said she knows that she will "be OK," she also acknowledged being anxious about the "scary road ahead." "I don't want to do it, but I believe through the grace of God that I can do it," she said. Bahl described the last few w.