‘I have breast cancer.’ Supermodel Janice Dickinson reveals

 Supermodel Janice Dickinson has revealed she is battling breast cancer in an emotional interview with our source.

The reality star was diagnosed with the disease on March 12 after her doctor found a lump in her right breast during a routine medical examination.

After an urgent mammogram and biopsy Janice was found to have early stage ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) – a common form of breast cancer that starts in the milk ducts.

Speaking exclusively to our source, Janice choked back tears as she spoke of facing the greatest challenge of her life.

She says: ‘Just two weeks ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer, it’s hard for me to say this, but I have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

‘It’s still quite shocking. Today I got very scared… I just get very scared and it hit me. But I am not gonna let that define me, the fear. I’m going to get through this, I’ll be just fine kiddo.’

Janice, 61, known as the world’s first supermodel, says she feels like she has entered a ‘nightmarish dream’ since the diagnosis.

She admits withdrawing in to herself and becoming very quiet – a different persona to her usually flamboyant, vocal self.

‘I went into a world of fantasy, kind of a world of process, I kept saying to myself, “you’re just processing this”,’ she explains during the interview.

‘You can’t be brave and fierce and all the things that people know you from – reality television, from the fashion industry, from being the world’s first supermodel, from being a judge, from being a writer, a photographer, from being an AIDS activist.’

Janice first went to see her doctor for minor stomach trouble on March 8.

During the consultation the doctor decided to conduct a full medical examination of Janice’s body and that was when she noticed a ‘pea size’ lump on her right breast.

Janice recalls: ‘The doctor noticed it immediately. She said, “this doesn’t feel right.” And she said, “We have to be real comprehensive with this and have it checked out.”

‘I’m always optimistic, initially when the doctor found the lump it hurt, it became quite painful when you touch it, that’s the point when I knew this is serious, when the doctor touched this little lump in my right breast, about the size of a pea, and I went bingo, I have cancer.’

The former America’s Top Model judge admits that in that moment she became scared, not for her own life but for the feelings of those close to her.

‘I became fearful for my two children, my loving fiancé Rocky, we have a grandson, aged four, his name is baby Aby. I just thought they are gonna flip out.’

Three days after the lump was discovered Janice returned to hospital and had a mammogram and a biopsy. Within 24 hours the results were back.

The star was out in Beverly Hills enjoying her favorite pastime – shopping with her daughter Savannah.

‘My 22-year-old and I were out shopping when I got a call from Rocky telling me the doctor was trying to get hold of me, then the doctor called me and told me, yes it’s positive for cancer,’ she recalls.

‘I just was really glad that my daughter Savannah, she likes to be called Savi, I was really glad Savi was with me at that moment because it was kind of an out of body experience.

‘At that moment I knew I had to be brave and I had to be strong.

‘I had to find the courage I possess as a woman, that we all have as women and then I had to put my chin up and my shoulders back and take it moment by moment.

‘I have a history of being an alpha-female, very strong. I’ve lost both parents, my mother died of cancer, that was a very painful moment when I found out about my mother and it was very painful when I found out about my dad, even though we had our differences, died of a heart attack.’

But Janice said that she didn’t let her guard down until she arrived home and fiancé Rocky was waiting with a hug.

The star broke down in tears and wept in Rocky’s arms, the only place she felt safe. Rocky, aka Dr. Robert Gerner, recalls the emotional moment.

He tells our source: ‘She felt safe enough to let down her defenses and wept out of fear, not imagining things, and she needed a lot of comfort.’

Although her daughter Savannah already knew, Janice was initially ‘ambivalent’ about telling her TV producer son Nathan Fields.

Source: Daily Mail