Ruth Bly

"I was sort of having a little cry. He said to me "What's the matter?" And I said to him "I'm so scared of your reaction when I haven't got a breast and I'm scarred, how you'd react, 'cos I want you to love me and I know you do, but, not scarred." And he stopped the car and he leaned over, he said "I love you so much. Nothing is going to alter that, nothing." And I thought, neat, we can get on with it now."

"And I thought, I'll start telling everybody and I'll just get it out of my chest. And I started to tell everybody. And then one day I said to my husband, I can't tell another soul! I was dying as far as they were concerned. I was dead and they were going to bury me, and I wasn't ready for this. So I stopped, I stopped talking about it.