Beaming Julia Bradbury, 52, dons a yellow bikini while soaking up the sun in Greece after reconstruction surgery following breast cancer battle
Julia Bradbury oozed confidence on Tuesday as she soaked up the sun during a family holiday in Greece.
The TV presenter, 52, proudly put on a bikini earlier this year after undergoing reconstruction surgery last October following her breast cancer diagnosis.
And Julia looked incredible once again in a bright yellow two piece while beaming in front of the ocean alongside her daughter.
Wow! Julia Bradbury oozed confidence on Tuesday as she soaked up the sun during a family holiday in Greece
Julia flaunted her natural beauty by going make-up free, while scraping her locks back into a high ponytail.
The TV personality slipped into a red bikini while sunbathing on the rocky beach and waving to the camera.
Alongside the video Julia posted to Instagram, she wrote: ‘Making memories. So grateful for this time with my family. Greece always leaves a feeling of home and more.’
She ended the positive post with a quote from Greek Proverb: ‘It’s sweet to view the sea when standing on the shore.’
Looking good: Julia, 52, looked incredible in a bright yellow two piece while beaming in front of the ocean alongside her daughter
Beaming: The TV personality slipped into a red bikini while sunbathing on the rocky beach and waving to the camera
The former Countryfile presenter underwent a mastectomy in October during which her breast plus two lymph glands were removed before reconstruction took place.
Speaking to Woman & Home she joked: ‘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.’
During a recent holiday the mother-of-two went on to tell Hello! magazine: ‘I have this feeling of embracing everything now, grabbing everything that life has to offer with open arms’.
Brave: The former Countryfile presenter underwent a mastectomy in October during which her breast plus two lymph glands were removed before reconstruction took place
She continued: ‘I wasn’t sure that I would ever travel again – and certainly wasn’t sure whether I’d wear a bikini ever again.’
Julia added she had always appreciated the ‘healing power of nature’ and did so even more now.
‘I’m still at the acute end of coming through my diagnosis and coming to terms with everything, so life is very heightened,’ she said.
‘The skies are a deeper shade of blue, the patterns of nature are more striking than usual. I’m taking it all in.’
The broadcaster said she was using her illness as an opportunity to ‘reset’ her emotional and physical health and now practises meditation and gratitude every day, sleeps at least eight hours each night and has cut out almost all alcohol.
She added: ‘It will be a long time before you find me dancing on tables again – and I love dancing on tables.’
Candid: Julia recently revealed that the risk of her cancer returning is higher than average and detailed her experience learning to love her body after a mastectomy
Julia also told how she had promised at the beginning of the holiday to agree to any of her children’s requests, from swimming to trekking or eating ice cream but only one a day.
She added: ‘They are this size for such a short time: you blink and they’re gone.
‘I want to enjoy every one of those moments and they’re even more magnified and precious now.’
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and affects more than two MILLION women a year
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?
What is breast cancer?
Breast cancer develops from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.
When the breast cancer has spread into surrounding breast tissue it is called an ‘invasive’ breast cancer. Some people are diagnosed with ‘carcinoma in situ’, where no cancer cells have grown beyond the duct or lobule.
Most cases develop in women over the age of 50 but younger women are sometimes affected. Breast cancer can develop in men though this is rare.
Staging means how big the cancer is and whether it has spread. Stage 1 is the earliest stage and stage 4 means the cancer has spread to another part of the body.
The cancerous cells are graded from low, which means a slow growth, to high, which is fast growing. High grade cancers are more likely to come back after they have first been treated.
What causes breast cancer?
A cancerous tumour starts from one abnormal cell. The exact reason why a cell becomes cancerous is unclear. It is thought that something damages or alters certain genes in the cell. This makes the cell abnormal and multiply ‘out of control’.
Although breast cancer can develop for no apparent reason, there are some risk factors that can increase the chance of developing breast cancer, such as genetics.
What are the symptoms of breast cancer?
The usual first symptom is a painless lump in the breast, although most breast lumps are not cancerous and are fluid filled cysts, which are benign.
The first place that breast cancer usually spreads to is the lymph nodes in the armpit. If this occurs you will develop a swelling or lump in an armpit.
How is breast cancer diagnosed?
- Initial assessment: A doctor examines the breasts and armpits. They may do tests such as a mammography, a special x-ray of the breast tissue which can indicate the possibility of tumours.
- Biopsy: A biopsy is when a small sample of tissue is removed from a part of the body. The sample is then examined under the microscope to look for abnormal cells. The sample can confirm or rule out cancer.
If you are confirmed to have breast cancer, further tests may be needed to assess if it has spread. For example, blood tests, an ultrasound scan of the liver or a chest x-ray.
How is breast cancer treated?
Treatment options which may be considered include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment. Often a combination of two or more of these treatments are used.
- Surgery: Breast-conserving surgery or the removal of the affected breast depending on the size of the tumour.
- Radiotherapy: A treatment which uses high energy beams of radiation focussed on cancerous tissue. This kills cancer cells, or stops cancer cells from multiplying. It is mainly used in addition to surgery.
- Chemotherapy: A treatment of cancer by using anti-cancer drugs which kill cancer cells, or stop them from multiplying
- Hormone treatments: Some types of breast cancer are affected by the ‘female’ hormone oestrogen, which can stimulate the cancer cells to divide and multiply. Treatments which reduce the level of these hormones, or prevent them from working, are commonly used in people with breast cancer.
How successful is treatment?
The outlook is best in those who are diagnosed when the cancer is still small, and has not spread. Surgical removal of a tumour in an early stage may then give a good chance of cure.
The routine mammography offered to women between the ages of 50 and 70 mean more breast cancers are being diagnosed and treated at an early stage.
For more information visit breastcancercare.org.uk, breastcancernow.org or www.cancerhelp.org.uk
