Hallmark actress Crystal Lowe diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer

Crystal Lowe, greatest recognized for her position in Hallmark’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” movie collection, has been identified with stage 3 breast most cancers.

In a private essay written for People magazine, The 44-year-old actor and director shared the harrowing second she realized about her prognosis, defined how the most cancers has “stripped her down” mentally and bodily, and defined how she gathered the power to courageously combat her hardest battle but.

“Like many ladies, I’ve at all times had a love-hate relationship with my physique,” she wrote. “Lengthy earlier than I had my two lovely kids, I used to be a bikini mannequin in magazines like Maxim, and early in my appearing profession I spent a few years enjoying roles that have been hyper-focused on how I appeared. And I felt that strain, always checking my physique, adjusting it, questioning whether or not I used to be ‘sufficient’. It was a quiet battle, fought every day.”

“Issues began to vary after I obtained the position of Rita Haywith in ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’ for the Hallmark Channel,” she continued. “For the primary time I used to be seen for my career. But when I am sincere, the mirror nonetheless calls me generally. I nonetheless verify. I nonetheless look. Solely this final time it wasn’t about my insecurity. It was about one thing far more necessary: my well being.”

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In late August, Crystal Lowe was identified with stage 3 breast most cancers. (Savion Washington/WireImage)

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In February 2025, Lowe observed a big mass in her proper breast. After initially being dismissed by a health care provider, Lowe’s mass had grown in dimension inside a couple of months.

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“The mass was 10 centimeters,” she recollects. “This time my physician wasn’t so nonchalant; I used to be rushed for a blind biopsy. After what felt like ceaselessly, the physician gently put his hand on my arm and stated, ‘Honey, I am unsure, however this seems like most cancers.'”

“I simply stared at him, blinking as if I hadn’t heard him proper. ‘I haven’t got most cancers,’ I assumed. ‘That is loopy.’ However deep inside me, one thing whispered, “What if?” Three days later my GP referred to as to say I had an invasive carcinoma in one of many ducts. I keep in mind getting on the cellphone, curling up in a ball and simply crying.”

Lowe stated she realized in late August that she had stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma.

The Hallmark star first observed a mass in her proper breast in February 2025. (Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

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“Mainly, I am wanting on the complete deal: chemotherapy, double mastectomy, radiation, and at last implants… As somebody who has by no means had a critical sickness, it was loads to digest,” she wrote.

The “Closing Vacation spot 3” actress stated she had per week to mentally put together for her first spherical of chemotherapy.

“I attempted so exhausting to push the nerves away as I walked by way of the door, however as I sat within the ready room I keep in mind pulling my knees up below my outsized sweater as a result of I wished to vanish so badly,” she recollects. “The worry was indescribable.”

The mother-of-two stated the worry of beginning chemotherapy was ‘indescribable’. (Presley Ann/Getty Pictures for Alliance for Ladies in Media Basis)

Lowe modified her mind-set.

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“First we have to shrink the tumor as a lot as attainable so the surgeon has one of the best probability of getting all of it out,” she wrote. “Second, see a naturopath who works with oncologists to recommend one of the best meals I can put into my physique that may support restoration. And third, acknowledge {that a} optimistic psychological state is KEY to the therapeutic course of.”

As she continues her therapies, Lowe stated all the course of has been troublesome but humbling.

Lowe, who remains to be present process chemotherapy therapies, stated this journey has been humbling. (Mireya Acierto/Getty Pictures)

“If I’ve one message for all of you, it might be this: this journey was scary, unusual and humbling,” she wrote. “It has stripped me in methods I by no means noticed coming, bodily, emotionally, and spiritually. And but… I vow to persevere. To show poison into medication. To develop. That is what I study day by day.”

“When you too are strolling a troublesome highway, know that you’re not alone,” she added. “We might not be capable to select what occurs to us, however we are able to select how we face it. And I will face it – with my sword raised, my coronary heart open, and taking it one step at a time.”