TODAY contributor Jill Martin has told her followers that she needs to get more surgeries.
She is currently battling breast cancer.
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On Wednesday morning, Jill, 47, took to her Instagram Stories to give her fans an update.
She walked along a New York City street in a beanie, jacket, and sweater.
“So many of you are asking if I am done. And I am done with the worst parts, meaning the next parts are preventive,” Jill shared.
The Today contributor said that they took the fill out of her breasts to give her radiation, which was where the tumor was.
Jill then pulled down the top of her shirt and said that she was getting the port where the chemo goes in removed, so she can get her surgery.
“The surgery is not a hysterectomy anymore. It’s just the ovaries and fallopian tubes,” she shared.
Jill said that after she goes through that surgery she only has reconstruction left, which she called “not a big deal.”
“And then, I have to be on pills for seven to 10 years,” the television personality said.
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‘I’M CONFUSED’
Jill went on to say that she feels very confused that her having cancer happened.
“Like I looked at Erik, and I was like ‘Did I just have breast cancer and chemo?'” she said.
Erik Brooks is her husband, whom she married in September 2022.
Jill said she has to process what she went through.
Fortunately, she met someone on the street who gave her a therapist, who used to be an oncologist, so she could go to to sort that all out.
Jill ended the video by thanking everyone for their support and said that she likes the decision that she made to cut her hair short.
TODAY’S TRAGEDY
She was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer last summer.
Jill opened up about her journey on Today with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie.
The contributor brought her doctor onto the morning show with her to share more about how she learned of her diagnosis and the steps they took up to that point.
“This feels like an out-of-body experience,” Jill said, after Hoda asked her to share her news with viewers.
Jill got choked up as she revealed, “I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. And it feels like someone else telling this story. Six weeks ago, it happened really fast.”
Her mammogram was clear back in January, Jill said, but a doctor still told her to get breast cancer (BRCA) genetic testing a few weeks before she announced her diagnosis, due to her family’s history with the disease.
“I got the test, and it came back positive,” she said. “I was planning on getting the preventative surgery. That was my choice.”
It was when she went in to get scans done ahead of the surgery that the doctors discovered that she actually did have cancer.
Jill broke down in tears as she shared that her grandmother died of breast cancer.
Her mother had a double mastectomy, but luckily, is healthy and survived.
“What I’m most sad about is watching my parents watch me go through this,” she admitted through tears.
Hoda told her colleague, “Jill, can we just say, we love you very much. We cannot wait to see you on the other side of this.
“You are full of optimism and hope, I know you’re scared, but you know that you have a family here waiting for you to come back with open arms.”
Jill said that she was going to have surgery later that week and felt scared, but also empowered.
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