Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian 'doesn't feel like a fighter' as she shares cancer update

Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian, who shared the news of her cancer diagnosis last month, took to social media to share a health update with fans

Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian revealed she sometimes 'doesn't feel like a fighter' as she shared a health update with fans.

Last month, the actress told fans she was left in "total shock" after being diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. The 42-year-old said she has been having weekly chemotherapy treatment and then early next year will undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy treatment.

Ali, who has appeared on the BBC1 series Doctors and also competed in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, discovered a lump when she was breastfeeding her daughter Isabella. Doctors initially thought it could be a blocked duct but when antibiotics failed to stop the soreness she went to a specialist clinic where tests revealed the cancer.

In a new update posted on social media, Ali shared a snap of herself wearing a grey shirt and a hair wrap around her head. She said: "Some days you don['t] my feel like the fighter people tell you you are, and that's ok too. This is not an easy path. There is cortisol in tears and they are better out than in."

Last month, she told OK! Magazine about the diagnosis. She said: "It was a total shock. I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten… and then suddenly I remember. I’m still trying to process it.” Her husband David O’Mahony added: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy.

"She said it in the most subtle way so the girls didn’t twig. I could see how scared and in shock she was. It’s so tempting to try and ‘positive’ your way through news like this but it just hit us like a sledgehammer. I just had a feeling of it being so unfair that Ali had been dealt this hand.”

Ali, who appeared as Becca Dean in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2007, moved from London to rural Ireland with their two daughters, Isla and Isabella, and partner David earlier this year. She took to Instagram to talk about her major burn out caused by life in London and the challenges that followed her second pregnancy being some of the reasons she moved.

She had spoken excitedly in May about living in house "overlooking the ocean on the West Coast of Ireland" before her devastating cancer news which came in June.

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