Khairuddin, exercised for a living. But at the age of 43, the FitNut Loft founder was diagnosed with breast cancer and her world came crashing down.y mother died from breast cancer when I was seven years old. So I’ve always grown up with this foreboding that one day I might get it,” she said.Her daughters were only nine and six years old then. “My first thought was, I didn’t want to die. I had grown up without a mother and didn’t want that to happen to my daughters,” she said.
“But the actual journey hit me like a tonne of bricks. It was so much harder than I’d ever envisioned,” she admitted.It began as a simple lumpectomy to remove the tumour. However, her doctors could not find clear margins and suggested a mastectomy to remove her entire right breast. Because ofShe then underwent reconstruction using breast implants before proceeding to do chemotherapy.“That was far worse than my chemotherapy.
“I’d gained 16kg, lost all my hair and didn’t have breasts. I was a shadow of the woman I was. I hated how I looked,” she said.oestrogen receptors to prevent cancer cells from growing. “M That was the lowest point in her life. Though she was not officially diagnosed, she remembers experiencing symptoms of depression.