Tina Knowles is opening up about her breast most cancers battle, urging different girls to be vigilant with their mammograms.
The mom of Beyoncé, 43, and Solange, 38, is letting the world in on her non-public journey with breast most cancers, which is available in tandem with the discharge of her “intimate and revealing” memoir, Matriarch. The entrepreneur, 71, was blindsided final July when medical doctors found stage 1 breast most cancers in her left breast. The information got here shortly after she and Beyoncé launched their Cécred hair care line, whereas she was ending writing Matriarch.
“It’s vital to not slack in your mammograms,” she advised Individuals whereas speaking concerning the prognosis. “I struggled with whether or not I’d share that journey [in the book] as a result of I’m very non-public. However I made a decision to share it as a result of I believe it’s loads of classes in it for different girls.”
She continued, “And I believe as girls, typically we get so busy and we get so wrapped up and working round, however you have to go get your take a look at. As a result of if I had not gotten my take a look at early, I imply, I shudder to suppose what may have occurred to me.”
That’s when Knowles revealed she, herself, had missed getting her scheduled mammogram, saying, “I forgot that I didn’t go to get my take a look at two years earlier than I assumed I had, as a result of COVID got here and so they referred to as me and canceled me and so they stated, we’ll name you once we begin testing once more. And I simply thought I had carried out it. So you can’t mess around with that.”
In Matriarch, Tina additionally shares how her daughters handled the information. Beyoncé “took it nicely,” she stated, “Staying optimistic, and I may already really feel her thoughts racing, specializing in this as a activity to sort out with precision.” As for Solange, she stated, “Mother, we’re going to care for this.”
Knowles stated that her bonus daughters, Kelly Rowland and her niece, Angie Beyince, additionally stood by her aspect, writing, “My women turned my group.”
Late final 12 months, Tina underwent surgical procedure to take away the tumor, together with a breast discount.
“I’m doing nice,” she advised Individuals. “Most cancers-free and extremely blessed that God allowed me to search out it early.”
Mathew Knowles, Tina’s ex-husband and the well-known father to Beyoncé and Solange, additionally had a battle with breast most cancers, being recognized with male breast most cancers in 2019. He made the announcement to Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, and within the years since his prognosis, he has recovered and turn out to be an advocate, particularly for genetic testing.
Tina says she was not discovered to have breast most cancers genes and her household doesn’t have a historical past of the illness.
