A TV presenter has revealed that she’s battling throat cancer.
Paulina Mercado, 52, said the hardest thing was telling her children about her devastating diagnosis.
The Mexican TV star, who co-presents the morning show ‘Sale El Sol’ on Imagen Televisión, said she learned of her cancer diagnosis last month.
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On the TV Show, Mercado said she went to the doctors for a routine check-up when a malignant tumour of “considerable size” was found in her throat.
She underwent an operation to remove the tumour yesterday (30 Sept).
Mercado, whose partner is Argentine-Mexican actor, Juan Soler, 58, said: “I believe that our scars are a map of our life.
“This mark will remind me where I need to go and that I should live in the here and now.”
Mercado, who had a benign brain tumour removed in 2022, admitted that she was worried about telling her children, as reported by Need To Know.
She said: “I was terrified of saying the word ‘cancer’, but I have already started therapy and meditation.
“What worried me the most was telling my children.
“I prepared my speech, I meditated, I did breathing exercises, and then they came home and I told them.
“They looked at me and asked why I was laughing.
“My children are having a hard time understanding why I’m so calm.
“I understand what they’re going through.”
She added: “I am just embracing the process, I have no other choice.”
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