CNN anchor cancer: Zoraida Sambolin revealed that she has been diagnosed with cancer and will have a double mastectomy.
“I struggled for weeks trying to figure out how tell you that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was leaving to have surgery,” Sambolin said in a posting to her Facebook page Tuesday. “Then, Angelina Jolie shares her story of a double mastectomy and gives me strength and an opening.”
Sambolin told of her own diagnosis while discussing Jolie’s decision.
Sambolin said that Jolie’s perspective made talking about it easier.
“She said I feel empowered, that I’m in a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity,” Sambolin said. “You know, it’s nice to hear somebody else talk about it and have that support of a lot of women around you.”
“At the end of the day, I need to have peace of mind,” she added. “I need to sleep at night. I have two kids that are my world, like any woman, and it’s what you think about. So I thought for me, this would be the best decision moving forward so I could feel confident that it’s not something that I’m going to have to deal with that much more in the future.”
