Jill Martin.Photo:Jill Martin/Instagram
Jill Martin/Instagram
Jill Martinshared an emotional update on her breast cancer journey.
On Wednesday, theTodayshow correspondent shared a series of Instagram Stories documenting her day as she went shopping for a wig. Martin, 47, wasdiagnosed with breast cancerin July, just one week after she tested positive for theBRCA gene. She lost her hair during chemotherapy treatment.
The lifestyle contributor began with positive energy, telling her followers that she was aware that her eyelashes and eyebrows were going to lose hair just a few weeks into her treatment.
“I will be dressed up as me,” Martin then told her followers. “I’m excited. I feel like I want to feel like myself.”
Jill Martin.Jill Martin/Instagram
After sharing her excitement, Martin’s next Story included a video of herself teary-eyed while wearing a blonde wig that resembled her hair before treatment.
“So my friend Andrew helped me,” an emotional Martin explained. “This looks just like me, right?”
“It’s hard,” Martin said in between tears. “I feel like I could style it myself. It’s fun. It’s like playing dress-up. I’m dressing up as myself.”
Jill Martin shares a video of wigs.Jill Martin/Instagram
Martin next shared a clip of the wigs lined up together. In the background, she opened up about how “really hard and strange” the whole process was and reiterated how she framed the experience as a time to “play dress up.”
Next, she shared how there was some difficulty getting her eyelashes done because she doesn’t have “a lot to attach the [fake eyelashes] to.”
She then thanked her followers for their support and said she was feeling “better.” Martin added how her friend Andrew told her to think of the wig as “an accessory.”
“So when I feel like wearing the accessory I’ll put it on,” said Martin.
Jill Martin with a friend.Jill Martin/Instagram
“Well the good news is I can’t cry anymore because I have eyelashes on,” Martin joked in a follow-up Story as she posed with the wig and eyelashes. “Been through a lot to get to this point. Pretty happy with it.”
Martin shared a final selfie posing with the complete look and a full face of makeup and the caption “Happy 🥹."
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Martin has been undergoing treatment since August, including chemotherapy as well as a preventive bilateral mastectomy.
She told PEOPLE in Octobershe also receivedcold-cappingat the same time as her chemotherapy treatments. Cold-capping is a procedure in which hair follicles are frozen at sub-zero temperatures during chemo treatments to prevent them from absorbing the chemicals.
source: people.com
