Anastacia reveals naked selfie to celebrate body confidence after surviving breast cancer twice and double mastectomy
Declares: 'I call them my twin set and they are just awesome'
I’M Outta Love singer Anastacia looked FULL of love as she posed defiantly in front of a mirror nude in celebration of her femininity after undergoing reconstructive surgery on her breasts three years ago.
The 47-year-old US star was forced to make the life-changing decision of having both of her boobs removed in a double mastectomy after two battles with breast cancer in 2003 and then ten years later in 2013.
She then embarked on pioneering surgery to have them rebuilt.
Sharing the snap on Instagram with her 72.8k followers, she can be seen looking back at her reflection with a smile across her face as she cups her left breast in her hand.
Also visible is a scar on her left side, a reminder of her struggle with inflammatory bowel condition Crohn’s disease, which she was first diagnosed with age 13.
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Having developed at an early age, Anastasia admits that she used to hate her body.
She recalled in an interview to The Big Issue last year: “I wanted blue eyes, I wanted to be taller, I wore glasses, I got my chest early and I was very embarrassed about it.”
However now she has come to embrace her womanly curves which she describes as “awesome”.
She said: “These two little monsters – now I call them my twin set and they are just awesome. Now I’m just so very proud to be a woman.
“I’m extremely blessed – breast cancer brought more femininity my way than I knew what to do with. I had been so scared of it but now I embrace it.”
Describing her journey to get there, she told The Guardian: “It was actually four different procedures. It hurts a lot - and you have to wait months in between each for the area to heal.”
Hindering this process was Anastacia’s previous cancer treatments in 2003.
She explained: “The second surgery they removed the expanders and rebuilt the breasts," she explains. "The problem was that the first time in 2003 I was radiated, so all the tissue was useless and they couldn’t use any remaining pectoral muscle to build with the implants.
"They can take muscle from your stomach, back or top of your glutes. I decided that I have tattoos already on my back so scars there would be OK.”
She concluded: “What a painful surgery! I could have taken three mastectomies over that pain. It was so hard. But the sun shining over all the pain was a little voice singing ‘I ain’t got cancer!’”