Two sisters from Massachusetts got well-deserved makeovers on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kristen Flynn and Sally Peterson told their stories Oct. 16 of being diagnosed with and surviving breast cancer.
The sisters also shared how Hoda Kotb inspired them to persevere through their health challenges. Read their motivational stories and see their beautiful makeovers below. Kristen Flynn said there was no family history of breast cancer, but she knew something was wrong when she noticed a “thickness” in her breast when she was 49 years old.
“It was not the typical lump marble that we’re taught as women to look for," she recalled during the segment that aired on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna. After doctors found a 6-centimeter tumor in her right breast, Flynn was shocked. "Your world changes in an instant,” she said.
After Flynn was diagnosed, one of her friends attended an event where Hoda, also , was speaking. When Flynn's friend told Hoda about her story, Hoda handed her a ring she'd been wearing on her finger. It said "Forward.
" “She took it off of her finger and said, ‘Please give this to your friend, Kristen, for me, and tell her that I’m thinking of her and she will be OK,’” Flynn recalled. Afterward, Flynn’s mother ordered more of the pink rings to hand out to family and friends. "Everybody wore it as a symbol of moving forward.
'We will get through this,'" the 58-year-old said. Flynn underwent several methods of tre.