Popular influencer Bridget Bahl has been diagnosed with breast cancer while undergoing her sixth IVF treatment. The fashion and lifestyle creator, 41, told her 1.4 million Instagram followers the cancer has already spread to one of her lymph nodes.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Influencer Bridget Bahl diagnosed with breast cancer amid IVF. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today In a tearful video, Bahl said she and her husband, Dr Michael Chiodo, “just really want to have a baby” and have been through the IVF retrieval process five times already without success. Bahl said, during the sixth retrieval process, “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.
” The doctors encouraged her to go for imaging, despite her being convinced it was a cyst from the hormones she was taking. Bahl, who splits her time between New York and Dallas, said she “really, truly did not feel worried” and that she “felt great” and in fact still “feels great”. The doctor who did the scan reportedly told her: “Bridget, I have been doing this for a long time, and I do not like what I see.
” A biopsy was taken at the same time, and the doctor confirmed the bad news the next day. “Unfortunately, (she) confirmed that I do have breast cancer and that it has spread to a lymph node,” Bahl said. She said the past few weeks have been “nothing short of a nightmare” with “so.