Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘Chicago Med’ Star Marlyne Barrett Reveals Uterine and Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
thewrap.comPeople, revealing that doctors found a “football-sized” tumor on her uterus and left ovary in July.“When my character went through breast cancer, I had a sea of people reach out to me through social media.
They brought me courage, and so I felt a sense of inevitability to meet their hearts where they met me,” she said, referring to Maggie’s fictional battle with breast cancer in 2019.“The initial experience was a shock, a shock to my womanhood,” said Barrett, who is also known for her work on “The Wire” and “Damages.” “I didn’t believe them, but when they showed me the CT scan, I went, ‘Oh my word.’ The first questions were, ‘Am I going to live?’ I just fell into my husband’s arms.
It still takes my breath away when I think about it.”Barrett’s first symptoms began April, after an operation to repair a hernia, “had this accumulation of fluid [in my abdomen] that I couldn’t shake.
I looked like I was nine months pregnant. And I also had shortness of breath, but no pain, which was interesting,” she said.After undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and a hysterectomy, she said, “I found this courage and I just hunkered down and said, ‘I’m going to face this.'”Knowing that she was going to lose her hair, she chose to shave her head herself. “I didn’t want to give the power to chemo,” she said. “My hair has always been an essence of beauty.
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