After being diagnosed with mastitis, Jaime Pressly revealed that she underwent an “almost full mastectomy.”
“When I had my son, I got mastitis but I didn’t know,” the 37-year-old said on“The Talk” Wednesday. “I just thought it was normal breast feeding pain.”
An infection of breast tissue, mastitis causes pain, swelling, warmth and redness in the breast. Other symptoms include fever and chills.
But roughly four years later, she developed numerous lumps in both breasts. She went to a doctor, had the scar tissue removed from one breast and it began to spread. She opted for a second surgery.
“I still have some breast tissue left,” the “My Name Is Earl” actress said. “But [I had] almost a full mastectomy from just the mastitis. It mutated into something else because it sat dormant for a while. It was the craziest thing, I mean thank God it wasn’t [cancer].”
With a new lease on life, Pressly said she wants to do away with anything extra on her body—including her long hair.
“Whatever’s easier,” she said.