Conquering the disease has left her feeling broody
Former EastEnders star Sam Womack has opened up on her desire to have kids after surviving cancer. The now 50-year-old's new life mantra since beating breast cancer is 'never say never' and says conquering the disease has left her feeling broody.
"Ollie and I talked about it and said, well, never say never. If it’s not possible naturally, there are other ways. I just want to celebrate life.” Sam went public with her health battle last August. Sam and ex-husband Mark are still close, and even lived together – with the kids and Oliver – in lockdown. “We had three teenagers, four dogs, a cat, two ponies...” she reels off on her fingers. “My ex and his family. Ollie’s family came to stay.
Oliver kept Sam’s spirits up while she was receiving chemotherapy by wearing her cool cap – a device to limit hair loss caused by the cancer-fighting drugs – and taking pictures of them mucking around. “It was really important for me, for the first time, to relinquish control in front of a partner,” she says. “I’ve never let my guard down in the way that I did.
“Look at these incredible humans who are all taking care of themselves but also thinking about other people. What I find extraordinarily moving about women is they spend their life nurturing, and even after diagnosis, these women were telling me, ‘I don’t want to hurt my mum, I don’t want to worry my sister, I don’t want to scare my kids’.
While undergoing two rounds of chemo using doxorubicin – nicknamed by patients the Red Devil thanks to its bright colour – Sam’s hair began falling out. “I lost around a third of it,” she says, running her fingers through the shoulder-length blonde crop that has since grown back.
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