Adele Roberts: I love my body more than ever

OHMYGOSSIP — Adele Roberts has “learned to appreciate” her body after being diagnosed with bowel cancer.
The 43-year-old star was diagnosed with bowel cancer back in October 2021 and following the removal of a tumour as well as undergoing chemotherapy “loves her body” more than ever before as she poses with her stoma bag – which allows her to go to the toilet – on the cover of Women’s Health Magazine.
She said: “Being diagnosed with cancer has meant I’ve learned to appreciate my body; be grateful that it works; be grateful they found the tumour in time to remove it and be grateful [that modern medicine means I can] have a stoma. I feel like I love my body more than ever. One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives, and I think the more we can actually talk about it, the less negatively affected people will be, mentally, if and when that happens. That’s why it means so much – as someone undergoing cancer treatment and with a visible stoma – to be on the cover of Women’s Health.”
The ‘BBC Sport’ presenter – who married long-term girlfriend Kate Holderness shortly after her diagnosis – went on to explain that while she initially spent “a lot of time feeling sad” about her cancer, she was amazed to find out how much she can still do as she adjusts to living with the disease.
She told Women’s Health UK: “I’ve spent a lot of time being upset. When I was in hospital, recovering after my surgeries, I would overhear conversations of other women on the ward and learn they had a much worse diagnosis than me – maybe terminal cancer – and that’s when I’d feel down. I think my strategy, so that I can stay stable while I’m on chemotherapy, is just to get on with it and try and not let it beat me mentally. Like, I need to sort of tackle it head on, because that’s how I cope with things, but I understand everyone’s different. Following people on social media who were going through treatment and sharing their stories really helped me. People who were living their life – truly living with cancer. And that wasn’t something I’d really seen before my diagnosis. On TV, stories often portray the sad side of cancer, which definitely exists. But I didn’t realise how much I’d still be able to do. I can go running, I can swim, I can still do my show on Radio 1.”
Read the full Adele Roberts interview in the June issue of Women’s Health UK, on sale from 24th May”
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/a40035261/adele-roberts-june-cover/

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