Myleene Klass has revealed she had a recent cancer scare after finding two lumps in her breast. The TV presenter, 48, took to Instagram on Tuesday to urge women to check themselves after she noticed the lumps while watching the tennis at Wimbledon in June.
Klass told fans she is now okay after receiving the all clear, describing the experience as "sobering, humbling and terrifying."
In a lengthy caption, she wrote: "Girls. A massive reminder to check yourselves. I accidentally felt a lump when I was at Wimbledon watching the tennis. I casually folded my arms and there it was. Then a second one."
"The subsequent days went both quickly and agonisingly slowly," she continued.
Klass said doctors found three cysts and three lymph nodes before she was given the all clear. "3 cysts and 3 lymph nodes later, I'm ok BUT the days of waiting meant I reorganised my life into a new set of priorities and 'what ifs' only to thankfully get the all clear and then experience the weird 'reordering' of going back to 'normal'," she wrote.
She added that she has close friends currently going through similar experiences, calling it "sobering, humbling and terrifying." "It's the having kids that anyone who experiences anything near this will know to be the first and final concern," she wrote.
Klass has previously spoken about suffering four miscarriages, and she said having an ultrasound again brought back difficult memories. "I haven't seen an ultrasound since my multiple MC's and that too was pretty sobering," she wrote.
Klass urges women to get checked
Klass, who described herself as a "fierce advocate for women's health," urged others not to hide discomfort. "All this to say, as a fierce advocate for women's health and not hiding what's uncomfortable, right now, check yourself and go get a second opinion," she wrote.
She thanked a friend she referred to as @the_mutha_ship for helping her get seen quickly. "Kudos and eternal thanks to @the_mutha_ship who moved mountains lighting fast to get me seen and sorted and didn't take her foot off the gas. To those who don't have a Sev, look at this as your prompt from me. Check yourselves. x," she wrote.
Klass was seen out and about on Tuesday leaving Smooth radio after sharing the news with her followers.
Lauren Laverne's own health battle
Klass's best friend and fellow presenter Lauren Laverne revealed earlier this month that she had been diagnosed with a rare blood and bone marrow disorder. The diagnosis came two years after Laverne publicly announced she was battling cancer in August 2024, before being given the all clear that November.
Laverne had previously disclosed that she had always been anxious about the possibility of developing cancer, especially after losing her mother to the disease in 2022. Explaining how her own cancer was caught early, she said: "It was something I'd always been anxious about. Especially if you have family members who've been through it. You have a sort of watchfulness about your own health, which is obviously why I got tested for everything and why it was picked up, thank God, so early on."
After receiving the all clear, Laverne told Good Housekeeping: "I think it's only when the storm passes that you realise what you'd been holding in." She described the day she was discharged from hospital, when she and her husband Graeme got into the car but did not switch it on. "We just sat in the car and both burst into tears and cried," she said.
Reflecting on life after cancer, Laverne said she probably loves her life more than she did before. "One of the really big things I've learned is that it's all life. It's all part and parcel and texture, a real life is lots of big experiences," she said. "And the truth of that is, like it or not, going through big stuff expands your emotional vocabulary. I've learned a massive amount and I hope I'm a better person now. And actually, I probably love my life more now than I did then, because I appreciate everything about it."
Breast cancer facts
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and affects more than two million women a year. 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 people a year and kills 40,000.
The usual first symptom is a painless lump in the breast, although most lumps are not cancerous and are fluid-filled cysts, which are benign. The first place breast cancer usually spreads to is the lymph nodes in the armpit.
Doctors diagnose breast cancer through an initial examination, which may include a mammogram, followed by a biopsy if needed. Treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment, often used in combination. Outlook is best for those diagnosed when the cancer is still small and has not spread.
