Hoda Kotb has opened up her battle with breast cancer almost 20 years after diagnosis.
Talking with People Magazinethe former Today The host shared that although the experience changed her but never defined her.
She said on Banding track for recovery Event, “I mean there are people who get breast cancer. I didn’t think I was one.”
“I mean I ate apples and ran in Central Park. I was like me? When they called me they were like ‘oh it’s you.’ I go, ‘It can’t be me.
Kotb shared the most important thing to do when you receive a cancer diagnosis is to “take a deep breath and brake.”
She said, “When it comes to breast cancer, it’s kind of, get it early, get it out and try not to be defined by it.”
“It can shape you, but if it defines you, you will spend your life feeling a certain way. So it’s like understanding that this is part of me but not all of me. It will change me and I will be different now,” Kotb added. “But what you find is that you are braver, you are more resilient.”
The journalist continued to add, “When I had breast cancer, I remember I was thinking of myself, I will ever feel beautiful in a clothes? Want to ever feel comfortable? How will I look?”
“I see what’s happening here today and it’s extraordinary. It’s important,” Hoda Kotb said.
