Baywatch star Nicole Eggert, 53, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share an inspirational message while battling cancer.
‘Some days I freak out on what my body has gone thru,’ began the Hollywood actress who came to fame in the 1990s opposite Pamela Anderson on the popular lifeguard show.
‘And then I remember how she showed up for me. And keeps showing up for me. So I put all my faith in her hands. She’s got this,’ added the social media favorite who has been open about her health battle.
Fellow Baywatch star Brande Roderick hit the like button as did TV veteran Jillian Barberie.
Along with the quotes was a selfie taken in her bedroom where she had on pretty makeup with oversized black-framed glasses.
The TV icon modeled a white statement T-shirt as she had on two gold necklaces and a matching bracelet while flashing a pale pink manicure.
Baywatch star Nicole Eggert, 53, took to Instagram to share an inspirational message while battling cancer. ‘Some days I freak out on what my body has gone thru,’ began the actress
Eggert as Roberta ‘Summer’ Quinn in the early 1990s in a publicity shot for Baywatch
Eggert is an actress who rose to fame in the 1990s for her roles as Jamie Powell in Charles In Charge and Summer Quinn in Baywatch.
She has also made guest appearances on The Super Mario Bros, Boy Meets World, and starred in several Lifetime Christmas movies.
In September she opened up about her cancer battle while on the Pod Meets World podcast. She admitted she was ‘sick’ of having to undergo surgeries and chemotherapy treatments to fight the cancer, all while she was in the throes of menopause too.
Eggert had just undergone a second mastectomy, followed by reconstructive surgery.
Eggert said that nowadays she is ‘always at the doctor’ due to her various check-ups and treatment sessions.
‘I’m so sick of it,’ she admitted to former Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong. ‘I have two good weeks out of every month and the other two weeks I’m at the treatment center. So it’s really all consuming.’
After Eggert mentioned that she was also dealing with menopause throughout the whole process, Fishel added, ‘So even when you’re feeling good you’re still not feeling that great.’
‘One hundred percent true,’ Eggert agreed.
(from left) Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, Gregory Alan-Williams, David Hasselhoff, David Charvet, Eggert and Jeremy Jackson on Baywatch
Fishel had a special connection to her guest, as she announced in June of 2024 that she had been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer, though she shared a year later that she is now in remission.
She mentioned that she spent ‘a lot of time trying to detox’ her body in the wake of her chemotherapy treatments, but she often found doctors couldn’t supply her with all the details she wanted.
‘There’s just so much out there, there’s so much information to be had that isn’t given to you by regular, general practicing doctors,’ she said.
She shared that she had been researching ways to ensure that her cancer treatments were as effective as possible.
‘Chemo is a beast. And they threw the strongest ones at me. And once they do it you can’t do it again so it’s like, I need for this not only to be effective now but how do I learn how I got here?’ she said. ‘They say not to think about that, but, sorry, I have to think about it. I want to know what I was doing that got me here. And what choices can I make in my personal life and daily life that will not bring me back here?’
The actress also explained that she had to do chemotherapy before she could have her mastectomy surgeries because the ‘cancer was too big.’
She previously revealed that she only had a single mastectomy at first in order to get back to her chemotherapy treatments as soon as possible, though she was recently able to have her second surgery.
‘I have two good weeks out of every month and the other two weeks I’m at the treatment center. So it’s really all consuming,’ she complained in September
Eggert said ‘chemo is a beast’ and revealed that she had researched ways to make her treatments as effective as possible; pictured in August 2024 in Santa Monica
Carmen Electra, Matthew Felker, Jeremy Jackson, Nancy Valen, Michael Bergin, Brandy Ledford, Michael Newman, Erika Eleniak, Alexandra Paul, Jaason Simmons, Eggert, Traci Bingham and David Chokachi at After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun event in 2024
But that won’t be the last surgery she has amid her ‘all-consuming’ cancer battle, though Eggert sounded optimistic about her next steps.
‘I still have surgeries ahead of me next month that I’m excited about. I really took my time with that because I just didn’t know what was the right route for me,’ she said. ‘There’s just so many opinions and options and I’m someone that needs to sleep on it so I took a year to listen to everybody, digest it all . . . It’s a big decision.’
The actress had previously had a single mastectomy in October of last year, which she revealed six days later on Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ podcast.
She had wanted a double mastectomy at that time, but her doctor advised her to ‘do the single’ instead, because it would keep her ‘immune system up higher than if we take both,’ and would thus enable her to get ‘back into treatment’ faster.
Last month, Eggert revealed that she has had another mastectomy, as well as a reconstruction by Orange County plastic surgeon Dr. Kyle Song.
She broke the news to her fans alongside a selfie that showed her posing in a sports bra and a pair of panties, presumably in the days after the operation.
‘Had a mastectomy with reconstruction on Thursday. How was ur weekend? #breastcancer #breastcancerawarness #feelyourselfup,’ she wrote.
She began experiencing ‘terrible pain’ in her left breast in October 2023, after having gained 25lbs over the course of just three months.
At first she attributed her symptoms to menopause, but when she performed a self-check and felt a lump, she ‘immediately’ called her doctor.
One mammogram and three biopsies later, she finally received her official diagnosis that December: stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.
Eggert observed that ‘the problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done,’ via People.
In February 2024, she disclosed that more cancer had been discovered in her lymph nodes and expressed regret that she did not check her breasts herself earlier.
Eggert admitted in September that she was sick of battling cancer on top of going through menopause; seen in April in Beverly Hills
‘The self-exams, I’m telling you, I kick myself. That’s the one thing I should have been doing,’ she said during an interview on Inside Edition.
Eggert recalled that when she received her diagnosis, her ‘heart dropped, I lost all hearing, everything sank. It’s named invasive cribriform carcinoma. It’s very rare.’
She noted that any anomalies in her breasts were more difficult to find because of tissue from the implants she got at the age of 19.
Eggert, who went on Botched a decade ago to obtain a breast reduction, described her original implants as a ‘huge mistake’ in her February interview.
‘If I didn’t have them and I had my smaller, natural breasts, I am sure I would have felt it much sooner,’ the California native theorized.
