Jill Martin is opening up about navigating life a year after beating breast cancer. “I hold two emotions that don’t normally go together simultaneously,” the 48-year-old told Us Weekly on Tuesday at the “Today” show taping. “I’m so grateful to be cancer-free, but on the other hand, I just came out of a year of fog and people look at me and they think I look like myself.
To me, I look totally different and my body’s totally different.”She added about the last 12 months, “I’ve spent the last year just trying to save my life.
And now, I’m dealing with the mental trauma of it all.”“And I think a lot of survivors will tell you, it’s never over. It’s not like, ‘When are you done?’ or ‘Is it over?’ It’s never over.
This is a fight I will fight my entire life. I think about chemotherapy every single day.”Moving forward, Martin explained that it’s her “mission in life” to raise awareness for the disease and to encourage others to get tested for breast cancer. “My year has been earth-shattering [for] my family and it could have been avoided,” confessed the Emmy-winning host. “I got it because I did not get genetic testing in time. … It’s not just a history of breast cancer.
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