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PARIS – As in the famous video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (dir. DA Pennebaker 1965) by her beloved Bob Dylan, Carla Bruni Sarkozy looks into the camera as her hands pull out some signs: the lyrics in French, then translated into At the end of the on Clips published on Instagram read in English and Italian: “Four years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Surgery, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, I follow the usual route to cure this type of tumor. But I was lucky: my cancer was not yet aggressive. Why wasn’t this cancer aggressive? Simply because it hasn’t had time to become… In fact, I have a mammogram on the same day every year. If I hadn’t had that mammogram every year, I wouldn’t have my left breast today… If I’m writing this post, it’s not to tell you about my life or the details of my health, and I hesitated for a long time before doing so speaks. When I write these lines to you, it is to send you a single message. But a fundamental message for all women who will read me: get mammograms. Do them every year.”
The singer and model decided to reveal the disease she defeated thanks to regular check-ups on the occasion of October Rose, France’s annual breast cancer awareness campaign. Carla Bruni Sarkozy collaborated with the Institut du Sein de Paris to talk about her experiences with her over 800,000 followers on Instagram.
In the video, he appears against a backdrop of dozens of personal photos hanging on the wall, while the background sound is Stromae’s song titled “Quand c’est” (When is it) with these words: But yes, we know each other well / You even wanted to be my mother, eh / You started with her breasts / And then with my father’s lungs / Do you remember? / Cancer, cancer, tell me when is it? / Cancer, cancer, who’s next?