OHMYGOSSIP — Julia Bradbury stopped drinking after her breast cancer diagnosis.
The ‘Countryfile’ presenter gave up booze and her “reputation for drinking everyone under the table” following the news she had a lump in her breast in September 2021, because it increases the chance of getting sick again.
The 52-year-old broadcaster told woman and home magazine: “Historically, I haven’t been kind to my body or my gut.
“I had a reputation for drinking everybody else under the table. But right now, I don’t feel comfortable drinking alcohol because if I drink one unit of alcohol a day, my risk of recurrence is between 5 per cent and 6 per cent across my lifetime.
“With four units a day, it goes up to 28 per cent.”
Julia – who underwent a mastectomy a month after her diagnosis – urged the importance of gratitude for getting her through.
She said: “My whole mantra for life has become, ‘Be grateful for what you do have, not what you don’t have.’
“I have a breast, I have my nipple, but I don’t have sensation and because I’m naturally slim, I have what I call the mozzarella-cheese effect around – as my friend Ben Shephard and I call it, my pneumatic boob.”
The ‘Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer and Me’ documentary-maker ruled out having any more surgery on her boobs.
Julia said: “Because my skin is very thin, you can really see the silicone implant beneath and it will be that way unless I have another procedure to inject fat from somewhere else.
“I don’t want to do that. It would purely be for aesthetics.
“I suppose age has something to do with it. In your 50s and 60s, femininity is still part of your identity, but it’s not the be-all and end-all.”
Julia – who has 11-year-old son Zephyr and seven-year-old twin daughters Zena and Xanthe with her husband Gerard Cunningham – previously admitted that telling her kids about her cancer was the “hardest thing”.
She said: “Telling your children you have cancer is the hardest thing you’ll ever have to do in your life.
“You also don’t quite now how much to tell them to be realistic, and how much do you need to protect them as well. It is a very tricky balance. I don’t think any parent really knows exactly what to do.”

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