Influencer Bridget Bahl Details "Nightmare" Cancer Diagnosis Amid IVF

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Bridget Bahl is sharing a hard truth.

The influencer was diagnosed with breast cancer in the midst of preparing for her sixth IVF retrieval with husband Michael Chiodo. 

Through tears, the 41-year-old expressed successful a Sept. 22 Instagram video, “We conscionable truly privation to person a baby.”

As Bridget, who tied the knot with Michael in August 2023, explained, she thought that the lump she felt successful her bosom a cyst, but aft going successful for imaging, a doc sat her down to present concerning news. “She looked maine successful the eye,” Bridget recalled, “and she said, ‘Bridget, I person been doing this for a agelong time, and I bash not similar what I see.’”

After reviewing the MRI results, the doctors determined that Bridget does person bosom crab and that it “has dispersed to a lymph node.”

Tearfully relaying her diagnosis, Bridget shared, “I cognize that I’m going to beryllium OK. I conscionable besides cognize that determination is simply a truly scary roadworthy ahead. And I don’t privation to bash it. But I judge done the grace of God I tin bash it.”

“The bully quality is the benignant I have, it is precise responsive to a targeted treatment,” she noted, urging fans to “do your aforesaid exams,” and to enactment with velocity if thing comes up.

As for her fertility journey, Bridget shared that she and Michael program to bash different embryo transportation successful the hopes that they tin person different changeable astatine welcoming their ain biologic child.

“I would conscionable emotion to get different embryo,” she said, visibly emotional. “It would mean truthful overmuch to me.”