Below is a preview of Michigan Avenue magazine’s January/February 2012 issue with E! News Live and Fashion Police host, Giuliana Rancic. She opens up candidly to editor-in-chief Susanna Negovan about her discovery through an IVF treatment check-up, the decision to have a double mastectomy this December and her desire to still attempt to have a baby this year after her recovery. She shot the cover the night before her double mastectomy and spoke to the magazine shortly after her recovery; it is a very inspiring story!
Rancic reflects on why she has considered the diagnosis a blessing instead of wondering “why”:
“People come up and they have sadness in their eyes, and I think, at a time when everyone’s looking at me with pity, I look at myself as lucky. I think I just dodged the biggest bullet of my life,” she says. Rancic goes on, proposing why she thinks this has happened to her. “Maybe in some way I’m a little bit of a messenger,” she says. “Maybe God knew that I have a big mouth, that I’m a loud Italian chick, that I wouldn’t hide anything. It now starts to make sense to me why I think I got the cool job, because I think HE knew I would do some cool stuff with it.”
Rancic reveals all reactions to her public announcement from people all over the world:
“Messages from Indonesia, South Africa, Australia, Toronto…,” she says. “I felt this over-whelming love and prayers coming from all over the world. I think because breast cancer touches so many people, when someone hears you have it, they just shower you with love. The one word I always saw in all the messages was strong. You’re so strong, stay strong, be strong—when you hear something enough, you start believing it. I was like, I’m strong, I’m strong, I’m strong. That’s what helped me get through a lot of this.” Rancic continues discussing how other famous friends have been affected by her revelation including a recent voicemail from Dancing with the Stars host Brooke Burke saying “I’m at my doctor’s office and I just want you to know I am finally getting my first mammogram and that is all thanks to you,” Rancic says. “It was that times a million—so many calls and emails from people inspired to take action. It’s phenomenal.”
Rancic discusses how she wants to bring happiness to others suffering from breast cancer:
“ I want to do something like Make-a-Wish for breast cancer patients,” she says. She’s been thinking about tapping into her connections, “so these women can enjoy the things I get to enjoy. Everything from ‘I’ve never owned a pair of Louboutins’ to ‘I’ve never met Ryan Gosling.’ Bill actually came up with the cutest name: Fab-u-wish.”
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