Sarah Beeny feels "weird" after being given the all-clear by doctors amid her breast cancer diagnosis.
The TV presenter was diagnosed with cancer last year and has undergone a double mastectomy in her fight against the disease. She decided to embrace her hair loss, cutting off some of her hair prior to the treatment she was having.
She is back on TV next week as her show Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country will return for its third series and ahead of the series debut, she admitted she has mixed feelings about being given the all-clear by doctors.
Speaking to Christine Lampard on ITV's Lorraine today, she said: "It's good but it's weird, the doctors sort of kind of go 'oh right that's it then, that's the end of that' and you're like, 'how do you know?' Then they go, we don't but we think so.
"It's an ongoing thing. I have to take drugs for years and be very vigilant. It's been a kind of weird ride."
Sarah has been open about her journey, with her and her family sharing regular photos of her as she prepares for treatment and surgery. She was also heavily praised by fans for showing the reality of cancer, by snapping a candid photo of herself 'drawing' her eyebrows on as she brings the focus to living with cancer.
In one image, Sarah was lying in a hospital bed showing off her pre-surgery markings, as her sons wrote: "Mum finally got some tattoos! Thank you so much to @rovalmarsdennhs and @yeovil_hospital_nhs for taking such amazingly brilliant care of her."
In another snap, she can be seen using a pen to draw her eyebrows on, as she quipped: "When you forget to draw your eyebrows on and only have a biro to hand!! It sort of worked… #brow #browgoals."
She previously told how she kept her cancer diagnosis from her husband and kids because she "needed to handle it in her own head before telling them" and cut off some of her hair prior to treatment and has since embraced going bald.
Sarah said: "It’s weird because I was trying to work out why losing your hair is so traumatic, because it shouldn’t be.
"It’s only hair isn’t it? I think it’s wrong we should feel so much shame… I thought, I have a tannoy and an option to speak about this, and I think if it helps one person… Maybe just because I feel it’s a bit empowering for me and maybe it’s a bit empowering for someone else to look at it and go, 'Okay, you know what, I can just go out with a bald head too.'"
She also explained how she had been "waiting" for the diagnosis her entire life, as her mum died of breast cancer.
Sarah shared during a previous TV appearance: "Probably since I was 10, I’m 50 now. My mum died when I was 10 and I’ve just always assumed that I would get breast cancer. Anyone else who’s lost a mum would feel this - she died at 39 so when I got to 39, I was like, ‘Here it is, this is it, this is the moment. And then I got to 40 and was like, 'Oh no, that wasn’t it - that’s not it'.
"So 40 was a bit of a bumpy moment, because I wasn’t sure what you do at 40 when you’re not dead. Then life went on and then I hit 50 and then I was diagnosed, and I thought, 'Oh there it is. It was just waiting.'"
Sarah had previously revealed that she would undergo radiation and a mastectomy this year. At the time of her diagnosis, she bravely decided to shave her own head using her dog's clippers shortly after her diagnosis.
