‘Today’ show’s Jill Martin cries trying on wigs after chemo hair loss: Cancer will ‘take your soul’

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said in one Instagram story. “But I’ll make believe I’m playing dress-up,” she said. “Maybe I’ll be a brunette.”In another Instagram story, she tries on a blond wig. “This looks just like me, right?” she asks, looking emotional. “It’s hard.

But … I feel like I could style it. It’s fun. It’s like playing dress-up. I’m dressing up as myself.”In another Instagram story, she reveals that she lost her eyebrows and eyelashes about three weeks after chemotherapy. “I’m going to get eyelashes now,” she said. “Sort of like an ambush makeover on myself.” Martin is documenting her journey for “Today.” In an emotional Wednesday video, she can be heard telling her doctor that she feels like a “shell” of herself and at times sleeps all day. “Cancer will take whatever you let it.

It will take your soul, it will take your hair. And that may seem small to you, but it’s not. Cancer wants everything,” she tells the camera.“When I walk into the studio I feel loved, I feel safe.

It feels like home to me … Everybody knows what I’m going through. And everyone’s amazing. You think I’m going to let cancer take away something else I love to do?” she went on. “I think people are like, ‘Oh!