Katjadvm....agreed, I tried to say something similar earlier but you were far better at calling it out. I feel really badly for her- and for anyone who is judged publicly or privately in how they cope with this disease.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she were indeed destitute. Even if she wasn’t profligate with her earnings, it’s a cold hard fact that in sports and entertainment business management, dishonesty and outright thievery happens. (Examples include former managers of TLC, Springsteen, Billy Joel, etc.--and sometimes the clients had to litigate, win or settle, and then start from scratch to rebuild their portfolios even at the pinnacles of their popularity and artistic achievement). If Doherty’s management dropped the ball on her medical insurance, that was probably just the tip of the iceberg. What I find offensive is her surgeon’s mindset--the condescending assumption that she had to "wake up with something.” She’s been a victim of bad decisions--and not necessarily her own.

agree the reporter doesn't know much about breast cancer, what surprised me was a remark by dr.oz. he said she needed to get the cancer removed so that she could put it behind her and never think about cancer again. What??!! Is he serious? We all know that never happens.

I couldn't keep reading the comments on this thread because I kept imagining if I were her and came here for support to read this nonsense.

To all of you who commented on the fact that you did not throw up from chemo, count yourself LUCKY. Even on the best anti-nausea meds, AC made me throw up for hours every time. I was constantly nauseous in the weeks between treatments too. I remember pulling my car over on the way home from work and puking my guts out on the side of the road.

As for her calling her expanders cute, everybody copes with trauma in a different way. It's common to put a positive spin on something that is really bothering you deep down. I've done it. I'm sure you have too.

Have some compassion.

It just pains me to see us criticizing our fellow sister. Regardless of her job or celebrity, this is a woman just like us: scared, facing a life changing, life threatening event. We all have our inidividual response to treatments and surgery, and one person cannot represent us all not be expected to. Be compassionate.

I think the moderaters should probably delete this whole post. I kind of stumbled on these posts well after my diagnosis and bmx. I wish I had it earlier but just didn't know. It would be just devastating if she came across this and saw all of this. This whole thing really should be pulled for that alone. We are so supportive of each other and yes it is a great place to vent but I don't think we should vent about a fellow sister and how she's dealing with it. Let's get back to bitching and asking for advise about our lopsided foobs and gaining weight and how sick we are and how we had to loose our beautiful long thick hair and eyelashes and our chest is so sore and burned from radiation and have to deal with another surgery and another bill and how we can fight this f'n disease--we can!! We have each other we can do this!

I don't see a need to delete posts. If we can't have a forum where we can discuss matters and how we who are also bc peeps feel then what's the point. Not everything is going to be rosey. I know I could have taken some posts wrong but it's up to me to just say this is how this person thinks, it's ok. No one is attacking anyone here, imo.

Please don't delete this! I've been involved in various online forums for the past 20 years and have noticed a disturbing trend towards censorship everywhere, no-one likes to hear opposing views and everyone is constantly offended, shamed, etc. I blame it on social media which mostly encourages like-minded groups to re-affirm each other as opposed to forum format which encourages debate.

I read some of her interview and I don't think she was body shaming. I think it's what she has to do or think for her own sanity. I had the one stage reconstruction done during my mastectomy because I was mentally vulnerable and I don't think I would have been able to wake up with nothing.. It all happened so fast. One week you get the news and the next month you're removing your breast.. It was overwhelming and scary and you do what you have to do to survive.. It's not about others, it's about you.

I wasn't strong enough to deal with coming out of surgery flat but that being said it wasn't an attack on anyone else.. It was my cross to bear.. It's what I did to deal with my situation.. I was 41 and this just came out of nowhere. She could be practicing positive affirmations. By saying it's cute she's taking a negative and making it positive.. It's like during chemo I pysched myself up to believe that it would be interesting to wear different wigs. To make it kind of exciting because the alternative would be to cry and be depress..Self preservation is the first law of nature...