Danielle Lloyd has revealed the heartbreaking moment she had to tell her sons she had been diagnosed with skin cancer.
The model, 41, shared a tearful video to Instagram last month in which she revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer after noticing a change to one of her moles.
Now, she has detailed the emotional moment she told her eldest sons Archie, 14, George, 13, and Harry, 11 – who she welcomed with her ex-husband Jamie O’Hara – about her diagnosis.
Danielle hasn’t told her two younger children Ronnie, seven, and Autumn, three – who she shares with her husband Michael O’Neill – because they wouldn’t understand.
‘I told the older three but not the younger two. Ronnie is at an age where he wouldn’t really understand, he’d hear that word and think I was going to die,’ she told Closer.
‘It was difficult telling the older boys, Harry asked me if my hair was going to fall out.
Danielle Lloyd has revealed the heartbreaking moment she had to tell her sons she had been diagnosed with skin cancer
Danielle told her eldest sons Archie, 14, George, 13, and Harry, 11 about her diagnosis, but didn’t tell her younger kids Ronnie, seven, and Autumn, three (all pictured with her husband Michael O’Neill)
‘It’s hard because they’re still young, so I don’t know if they fully understand – which is a good thing because I don’t want to put a strain on them.’
Danielle also recalled the moment she was told she had skin cancer after she visited the doctors to get a ‘very small’ mole on her collarbone checked when she noticed it had changed shape.
The TV personality said she knew something was wrong when the doctors called her asking her to come in and told how she broke down in tears upon hearing the news.
‘I was trying to hold it together, but then I just broke down, I was just so shocked,’ she admitted.
Danielle said her husband Michael was equally as shocked but has been very supportive throughout the scary ordeal.
She warned others not to ignore the warning signs, admitting she didn’t think she was at risk of skin cancer because of her ‘olive skin’ before doing further research.
Danielle broke the news of her skin cancer diagnosis in an emotional video shared to her Instagram Stories last month.
Struggling to hold back the tears, she said: ‘I don’t really know how to say this and I didn’t know whether to come on and say this but I feel like I have to raise awareness of this kind of thing happening to other people.
Danielle broke the news of her skin cancer diagnosis in an emotional video shared to her Instagram Stories last month
‘Today I have been diagnosed with a form of skin cancer.’
‘I just want to raise awareness for anyone who thinks they’ve got something funny on their body, they see a mole growing, which is not normal – please please please go to your doctor because honestly, you just never know,’ she went on.
The star said she’d been ‘really shocked’ by what she’d been told but went on to praise the Macmillan nurses at the hospital for their support.
She told her followers she will need an operation to see if her cancer has spread, which she could be waiting up to six weeks for. She has not specified what type of skin cancer she has been diagnosed with.
‘Honestly, it’s not what I expected today, I suppose it’s not what anyone suspects,’ she admitted.
‘Please guys, look after your skin, stay of sunbeds, wear factor 50 – and just look after yourself because you never know what’s going to happen.’
It is not the first time Danielle has had a cancer scare as she was rushed to hospital in 2023 after suffering from heavy bleeding.
Doctors then discovered she had large cysts on her ovaries, but was thankfully told they were non-cancerous after undergoing a biopsy.
She also found a lump in her breast last year and she was given the all-clear in October after a biopsy discovered the lump was benign.
