Tracey Emin braved the cold as she hit the beach in Margate on Thursday, wearing a black bikini.
The artist, 60, who underwent extensive surgery after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, recently returned home following an emergency hospital stint in Thailand after her small intestine ‘nearly exploded.’
Tracey looked in great spirits as she took a shower after enjoying a relaxing day at Sea Scrub Sauna.
She captioned the update: ‘Margate on an ice cold winters day… We all have to find ways to feel alive. And stay alive.’
Tracey found she had a tumour in her bladder in June 2020 and was suffering with very aggressive squamous cell cancer, which surgeons feared would kill her in months if it spread to her lymph nodes.
Tracey Emin, 60, braved the cold as she hit the beach in Margate on Thursday, wearing a black bikini after her recent hospital stint
She then underwent surgery to remove many of her reproductive organs, parts of her intestines and lymph nodes as well as being fitted with a stoma bag and recived the ‘all clear’ in April 2021.
Recently, Tracey became stranded in Thailand after an emergency admission to hospital.
The artist was flying home from Australia when she began to experience ‘horrible complications’ from an infection in her intestines.
She was then forced to pause her journey in Thailand and check into Bangkok Hospital in Phuket.
After spending several days on the ward, Tracey said she was able to move to luxury resort Amanpuri to continue her recovery.
In a rare post on social media, Tracey, from Margate, Kent, described her experience: and said: ‘I’ve been travelling and I’ve been very unwell.
‘Not cancer but horrible complications with my intestines brought on by an infection, scar tissue and made a million times worse by flying.
‘My small intestine nearly exploded. Luckily for me I was in Thailand on my way back from Australia, so I spent a few days in a very good hospital.’
The artist, who underwent extensive surgery after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, was admitted to hospital in Thailand after her small intestine ‘nearly exploded’
She continued: ‘Now recovering in luxury. Apart from using up another one of my nine lives, I’d say I was very lucky.
‘I’m now on a special diet and will fly when I’m well enough. Meanwhile it’s absolutely fantastic to be in love, not to be in pain and know how lucky I am.’
Tracey battled bladder cancer during lockdown and now has a urostomy bag.
The artist previously told how medics feared she could die after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer.
She has spoken about living with a urostomy bag and the ‘debilitating’ after-effects of the disease, which act as a reminder of her scrape with death.
She had been in Australia for work, with a new show featuring her work opening in Canberra last month.
It comes after artist Tracey revealed she nearly died after contracting Covid (pictured in June 2023)
She fell ill with Covid nearly a year after she finally received the ‘all clear’ after her battle against bladder cancer in September 2022
But while travelling home in time for Christmas she was forced to take a break from her long journey in Thailand due to a complication with an intestinal infection.
For now she is staying in Thailand, at the £5000-a-night luxury hotel popular with celebrities including Kate Moss, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Gates.
Concluding her post on Instagram, Tracey thanked Bangkok hospital for their care and Amanpuri for looking after her.
It comes after Tracey revealed she nearly died after contracting Covid.
She told in an Instagram post in August that she had been recovering at her house in France after the illness, nearly a year after she was given the ‘all clear’ from cancer.
Tracey wrote: ‘This is where I am.. at my house and studio in France. I love it here, it’s very magical in the true sense of the word. Usually I’m always painting here but this time I’m recovering from having Covid.
‘I can’t believe how ill I was, at one point, I actually thought I might die!
‘They say there is a new variant, more deadly than before. F**k knows .. all I know is I have to be very careful. Life is too beautiful to say goodbye.’
She underwent surgery to remove many of her reproductive organs, parts of her intestines and lymph nodes as well as being fitted with a stoma bag
Last September Tracey revealed she had finally received the ‘all clear’ after her battle against bladder cancer.
The creative took to Instagram to share a picture of herself in her hospital gown about to go for her CT scans alongside a lengthy caption in which she admitted she was ‘very happy’ to be alive.
Tracey announced she was over two years sober and confessed she missed her removed organs, but declared: ‘There’s so much more to me than a hole’.
She wrote: ‘ALL CLEAR. At the hospital about to have my CT scans and see my Surgeon.
‘It doesn’t mater how cool and stoic I am, inside I’m filled with worry. This time because I’m happy, this time because I feel well… I’m scared to say I’m happy. But I am, my life is so much better, I’m stronger and clearer.
‘I’ve been sober for 27 months and each day life becomes more interesting and I find myself caring and taking more interest in everything that’s around me.
‘I have to be honest.. I wish I had my bladder (a good working one that wasn’t riddled with cancer) I don’t give a f*** about my womb or breeding apparatus.
‘But I really miss my vagina, my urethra and those bloody little lymph nodes that kept everything tickity boo..
‘But Today hearing I have the all clear… Makes me very happy and feel good to be alive. There’s so much more to me than a hole.’
She originally found she had a tumour in her bladder in June 2020 and was suffering with very aggressive squamous cell cancer, which surgeons feared would kill her in months if it spread to her lymph nodes.
Tracey underwent surgery to remove many of her reproductive organs, parts of her intestines and lymph nodes as well as being fitted with a stoma bag.
