Many people may not know the truth about the health scare Fox News\u2019 Kayleigh McEnany faced in her 20s. The former White House press secretary discovered that she had a high chance of developing breast cancer. Despite her fear, her worry about how a double mastectomy would affect her dating life held her back \u2014 until she found a partner who supported her.<\/p>\n
McEnany already had a significant family history of breast cancer when her mother tested positive for the BRCA2 genetic mutation. This meant that her mom had an 84% chance of developing breast cancer and a 27% chance of ovarian cancer. Those odds inspired her mother to undergo a preventative double mastectomy. Her mother\u2019s experience influenced McEnany to get tested for the mutation when she was just 21, and she, too, tested positive. In her 2021 memoir, \u201cFor Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond,\u201d McEnany opened up about one thought that gave her pause when choosing to undergo the same surgery her mother had. \u201cI wanted to do it fairly quickly. Within the year, I had hoped. But I was single at the time. I wasn\u2019t sure what dating post-mastectomy would be like, and the unknown worried me,\u201d she explained. This prompted her to put the surgery off. Instead, McEnany was diligent about checkups and monitoring. But, just as her romantic life caused her to postpone the surgery, it had a hand in why she ultimately took the plunge, too.<\/p>\n
Kayleigh McEnany credits her husband for building her confidence to get the surgery<\/p>\n
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\nIn 2017, Kayleigh McEnany married her husband Sean Gilmartin. According to her, Gilmartin\u2019s support of her choice to undergo a preventative double mastectomy just like her mom had was the final push she needed. In her book, she explained, \u201d \u2026 he could not have been more reassuring, promising me that he would love me no matter what.\u201d In 2018, just six months after saying \u201cI do,\u201d McEnany had the surgery. According to her, \u201ca big reason I had the confidence to make this decision was because I had found a supportive husband in Sean Gilmartin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The procedure gave McEnany the peace of mind she\u2019d lacked since she tested positive for the BRCA2 genetic mutation nearly a decade earlier. She explained, \u201d \u2026 I now live life \u2018free of fear and full of hope.\u2019\u201d It\u2019s clear that for McEnany, marrying Gilmartin gave her calmness and confidence in her decision. And, since then, the couple, who has welcomed three children to the family, has been able to live without the fear of McEnany\u2019s previously high odds of getting breast cancer, which are now around zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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