Sarah Beeny dons fun hats with her four sons and husband in honour of brain tumour research
Sarah Beeny covered up her newly-dyed platinum blonde hair as she donned a fun hat on Friday in honour of a brain tumour research charity.
The TV presenter, 51, was joined by sons Billy, 18, Charlie, 16, Rafferty, 14, and Laurie, 12, with her husband of 19 years Graham Swift.
The family could be seen wearing a variety of hats for the Instagram update while battling the gloomy weather for a walk.
Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer in August last year and lost her mother to the disease when she was was ten-years-old.
In the post, the property expert wore a large vinyl bucket hat to shield herself from the rain with a yellow and black scarf.
Family outing: Sarah Beeny, 51, donned fun hats with her four sons and husband Graham Swift on Friday in honour of a brain tumour research charity
She penned: ‘Supporting #wearahatday highlighting the funding needed for @braintumourrsch – join us in a hat post! X’
Earlier in the day, Sarah revealed her new platinum hair was dyed by her son as she continues to be treated for breast cancer.
The mother-of-four, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, shaved her hair after clumps fell out when she began chemotherapy.
Now it has started growing back, Sarah took to Instagram to post a series of snaps of the process of her hair transformation.
One image showed her son grinning as he applied the dye to her locks while another revealed the product she was using.
Meanwhile, another image showed her new cropped locks as she posed ina black turtleneck jumper.
She wrote: ‘Thanks for all your lovely lovely comments to my last post – Sadly my hair natural hair not platinum blond…..!!!!’
It came after Sarah first posted about her new style on Thursday, fooling her followers by telling them her tresses had grown back blonde.
She penned: ‘Supporting #wearahatday highlighting the funding needed for @braintumourrsch – join us in a hat post! X’
Process: Earlier in the day, Sarah revealed her new platinum hair was dyed by her son as she continues to be treated for breast cancer
New look: Now it has started growing back, Sarah took to Instagram to post a series of snaps of the process of her hair transformation
She couldn’t contain her smile as she looked over her shoulder to the camera showcasing her short natural locks.
The star joked: ‘Look my hair has grown back all platinum!!!!! Xxxx #naturalblond!’
Last month, she announced that she had finished chemotherapy by sharing a picture of her sons’ CD cover.
Sarah wrote: ‘Not sure what is making the sun shine the most – 2 days into steroids (happy pills!!!) – no more chemo or @the_entitled_sons releasing their best song yet…
‘YES Friday IS a good day xx #finishedchemo #HEAVENKNOWS @nickyjohnston (sic)’
Back in the summer of 2022, Sarah revealed that she received the cancer diagnosis after finding a lump, which led to a biopsy.
She was told the cancer had not spread and ‘there is an 80 per cent chance of a cure’.
The star’s mother Ann had breast cancer which spread to her brain and she died aged 39, when Sarah was just 10 years old.
Sarah admitted that she had ‘a little bit of a breakdown’ in the consultation room, but explained to the nurse: ‘You don’t understand. I have waited 40 years to hear those words. I knew I was going to hear it one day.’
Explaining how she spent decades worrying about cancer on Loose Women, Sarah said: ‘My mum died when I was 10 and I’ve just always assumed that I would get breast cancer.
‘Anyone else who’s lost a mum would feel this – she died at 39 so when I got to 39, I was like, ‘Here it is, this is it, this is the moment’. And then I got to 40 and was like, ‘Oh no, that wasn’t it – that’s not it!’.
‘So 40 was a bit of a bumpy moment, because I wasn’t sure what you do at 40 when you’re not dead. Then life went on and then I hit 50 and then I was diagnosed, and I thought, ‘Oh there it is. It was just waiting.”‘
Before: Back in the summer of 2022, Sarah revealed that she received the cancer diagnosis after finding a lump, which led to a biopsy (pictured in 2012)
Reflecting on finding a lump on her breast, Sarah said it was initially dismissed as nothing to worry about, until she returned to the doctors to get it checked a few months later.
‘My mission, that I would like everyone to know, is that you should trust your own body,’ she said.
‘If you do have a lump and they say it’s all clear, if it doesn’t feel right go back again for another opinion.’
Sarah also opened up about how she has coped with losing her hair from chemotherapy, saying she thinks it is ‘wrong’ people are made to feel ‘shame’ about it.
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and affects more than two MILLION women a year
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?
What is breast cancer?
Breast cancer develops from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.
When the breast cancer has spread into surrounding breast tissue it is called an ‘invasive’ breast cancer. Some people are diagnosed with ‘carcinoma in situ’, where no cancer cells have grown beyond the duct or lobule.
Most cases develop in women over the age of 50 but younger women are sometimes affected. Breast cancer can develop in men, though this is rare.
Staging means how big the cancer is and whether it has spread. Stage 1 is the earliest stage and stage 4 means the cancer has spread to another part of the body.
The cancerous cells are graded from low, which means a slow growth, to high, which is fast-growing. High-grade cancers are more likely to come back after they have first been treated.
What causes breast cancer?
A cancerous tumour starts from one abnormal cell. The exact reason why a cell becomes cancerous is unclear. It is thought that something damages or alters certain genes in the cell. This makes the cell abnormal and multiply ‘out of control’.
Although breast cancer can develop for no apparent reason, there are some risk factors that can increase the chance of developing breast cancer, such as genetics.
What are the symptoms of breast cancer?
The usual first symptom is a painless lump in the breast, although most breast lumps are not cancerous and are fluid filled cysts, which are benign.
The first place that breast cancer usually spreads to is the lymph nodes in the armpit. If this occurs you will develop a swelling or lump in an armpit.
How is breast cancer diagnosed?
- Initial assessment: A doctor examines the breasts and armpits. They may do tests such as a mammography, a special x-ray of the breast tissue which can indicate the possibility of tumours.
- Biopsy: A biopsy is when a small sample of tissue is removed from a part of the body. The sample is then examined under a microscope to look for abnormal cells. The sample can confirm or rule out cancer.
If you are confirmed to have breast cancer, further tests may be needed to assess if it has spread. For example, blood tests, an ultrasound scan of the liver or a chest X-ray.
How is breast cancer treated?
Treatment options which may be considered include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment. Often a combination of two or more of these treatments are used.
- Surgery: Breast-conserving surgery or the removal of the affected breast depending on the size of the tumour.
- Radiotherapy: A treatment which uses high energy beams of radiation focused on cancerous tissue. This kills cancer cells, or stops cancer cells from multiplying. It is mainly used in addition to surgery.
- Chemotherapy: A treatment of cancer by using anti-cancer drugs which kill cancer cells, or stop them from multiplying.
- Hormone treatments: Some types of breast cancer are affected by the ‘female’ hormone oestrogen, which can stimulate the cancer cells to divide and multiply. Treatments which reduce the level of these hormones, or prevent them from working, are commonly used in people with breast cancer.
How successful is treatment?
The outlook is best in those who are diagnosed when the cancer is still small, and has not spread. Surgical removal of a tumour in an early stage may then give a good chance of cure.
The routine mammography offered to women between the ages of 50 and 70 means more breast cancers are being diagnosed and treated at an early stage.
For more information visit breastcancernow.org or call its free helpline on 0808 800 6000
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