Sarah Ferguson has urged her followers to show “their love for body and mind” on World Health Day, as she undergoes skin cancer treatment.
On Sunday, the Duchess of York, 64, shared the message in a instagram post accompanied by a sweet photo of her posing in a Wolf & Badger jacket.
“I would like to remind anyone reading this to check with yourself,” she warned fans in her caption.
‘Control your mental state and control your body. Go for your routine health checkup. Take that walk. Read a book.
‘Your body and mind are a priority. Make sure you show them love.”
Sarah Ferguson has urged her followers to show “their love for body and mind” on World Health Day, as she undergoes skin cancer treatment. Pictured after the Easter matins service at St George’s Chapel last month.
Awareness day, championed by the World Health Organization, is celebrated every year on April 7.
Sarah’s encouraging message comes as the Royal Family has faced a series of health problems, as she, King Charles III and the Princess of Wales are receiving cancer treatment.
Last month, the mother of Princess Beatrice and Eugenie said she was “full of admiration” for Kate Middleton for revealing her diagnosis.
Taking to social media, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, affectionately known as Fergie, paid tribute to the mother-of-three and said “everyone is praying for her.”
in a sense instagram In her statement, the Duchess said: “All my thoughts and prayers are with the Princess of Wales as she begins her treatment.”
‘I know she will be surrounded by the love of her family and everyone is praying for the best outcome.
“As someone who has faced her own battles with cancer in recent months, I have great admiration for the way she has spoken publicly about her diagnosis.”
Sarah was diagnosed with skin cancer just months after undergoing a mastectomy for breast cancer.
The Duchess of York, 64, shared the message in an Instagram post accompanied by a sweet photo of herself posing in a Wolf & Badger jacket.
Sarah was diagnosed with skin cancer just months after undergoing a mastectomy for breast cancer. In the photo of her with her daughters in November.
Sarah’s encouraging message comes as the Royal Family has faced a series of health problems – she, King Charles III (right) and the Princess of Wales (left) are all receiving cancer treatment.
Speaking about Kate’s decision to reveal her own diagnosis, the duchess added: I know it will go a long way in raising awareness.
He concluded the message by saying, “I hope he is now given the time, space and privacy to heal.”
Fergie revealed her shocking skin cancer diagnosis in January. The mother-of-two had several moles removed while she underwent breast reconstruction surgery last year, and one of them was found to be malignant.
The Duchess was described as being in “good spirits” after the “distressing” news, which reached her just days after Christmas.
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body, caused mainly by exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun or tanning beds.
People with paler skin, a large number of moles, and a family history of skin cancer tend to be at higher risk of developing it.
Friends at the time said Fergie is the “most resilient” person they know and was already planning to resume her TV career soon to encourage others to get checked out.
A friend told the Mail that the Duchess had been told she would need “further investigations” to make sure it was caught in the early stages.
“Everyone hopes this is the case and doctors are hopeful they got it figured out early, but melanoma is aggressive and they need to recheck everything,” they said.
Fergie revealed her shocking skin cancer diagnosis in January, just six months after battling breast cancer. Photographed at the Christmas Day service in Sandringham in December.
They added of Sarah: “She’s very resilient and bounces back from things pretty quickly, but two cancer diagnoses in six months, particularly when she thought she was just over breast cancer, is a lot for anyone to deal with and process.” “. .
‘You hope you’re over it and then you get something like this.
That’s why I wanted to get away from Austria for a couple of weeks to understand everything. Now she has returned home and her family has supported her a lot.”
They also praised “their daughters,” Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who they said have been “fantastic over the past six months.”
‘They really have been brilliant with her breast cancer diagnosis. And they are already joining it,” they said.
The Duchess was described as being in “good spirits” after the “distressing” news, which reached her just days after Christmas. Pictured is her talking about her battle with breast cancer on Loose Women in November.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Sarah also enjoyed a trip to Samoa and shared photos from the visit online.
Among the groups the royals met was the Poutasi Women’s Committee.
Some of the images show Sarah with garlands around her neck as she hugs some of the local people she met.
And in a photo from another engagement she is seen dressed in white.
Meanwhile, a series of photos shared a day earlier by the Duchess show her with a flower behind her ear during an appearance on Brown Girl Woke in Samoa.