Amy Dowden has expressed her heartbreak after she started losing her hair while undergoing chemotherapy.
The popular Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer recently revealed that doctors have discovered she has “another type of cancer” following her initial breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
The dancer, who specialises in ballroom and Latin, posted the update on Instagram.
“What I've found harder this time round and the last few days is the hair shedding,” she wrote in the accompanying caption.
“As much as I prepared myself, waking up everyday gently combing my hair with a wide comb and seeing what comes out, it is just heart-breaking personally for me.
“I’m only washing my hair once, max twice, this week, not using any heat on my hair or styling it, so I just don’t feel like me.
“So it’s time to bring out the wig, I say, and get used to this, and help me feel like me.”
Despite her insistence that she was “still Amy”, she said, “Some days last week, I'd wake and, for the first few seconds, you forget and then, suddenly, it all hits you, the day and challenges ahead and your new reality, and it’s tough — had a few morning cries and learning that’s OK, too.”
Dowden was first diagnosed with aggressive stage three breast cancer in May after finding a lump while preparing for her honeymoon with husband Ben Jones in April and shared her diagnosis weeks later.
She has since had an operation, a mastectomy, and fertility treatment, however, during an Instagram Live chat with breast cancer survivor and Paralympic gold medalist Erin Kennedy for the charity CoppaFeel! recently, Dowden revealed the devastating news that cancer had been found elsewhere in her body.
Dowden recently underwent her first round of chemotherapy in an attempt to rid her body of the disease.
