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Brigitte Barr is reaching a major milestone in her fight against cancer.
In two emotional videos she shared to her Instagram on Oct. 14, the content creator revealed that she has officially completed 15 days of breast cancer radiation treatment.
“We did it — we did it,” Barr said in the video. “It took all of my heart and soul to do it, but I did it.”
In September 2024, Barr first revealed to her more than 1.7 million Instagram followers that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer during her sixth round of IVF. In the year since then, the internet personality has been sharing her cancer journey online, including a round of chemotherapy and surgery to remove four lymph nodes from her breast.
On September 8, Barr posted a video blog about her first day of radiation treatment (the latest cancer treatment) and shared, “I got dressed every day for radiation treatment and promised myself there would be no days off.”
In his latest update, Barr said he kept his promise. “Every day I got dressed. I laughed. I danced. I cried. The next day I said I wasn’t going home. I was out of breath. I prayed. I begged. But I went back. I danced again and cried again.”
“These past few weeks I didn’t know what was going to happen, but let me tell you, it took everything I had,” the social media star continued. “Tonight is the first time I’ll be able to do something I’ve wanted to do for months.”
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At the end of the clip, she played audio of a bell ringing. This is like the bell rung at the hospital to celebrate the end of treatment.
When Barr first broke the news of her diagnosis to her followers, she said the weeks that followed were “nothing short of a nightmare.” She later posted that her chemotherapy treatments were so taxing on her body that her oncologist advised her to take six weeks “off” from treatment.
She also opened up about experiencing hair loss as a result of chemotherapy.
“I struggled with my hair from the beginning,” she said in a tearful video. “I know it’s just hair, but that’s what cancer is about. It makes you realize how precious life is.”
Barr has been documenting her cancer journey online and is adamant about the importance of self-examination.
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“This platform is like 90 percent female, and I feel like this is such a huge opportunity that I can’t not share it,” Barr said in the original video announcing her diagnosis. “You have to self-examine. If you feel something, you have to say something and get tested. Don’t wait…If you don’t wait, you have a better chance to treat it, get it, and fight it.”
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Concluding her latest health update, she reflected on finding the light in such a difficult experience.
“Desperately looking for small victories. I believe this weird mess will help someone else. I take a full day every day to rewire my brain to feel grateful,” the influencer wrote in the caption. “But I learned a lot about faith and hope. About surrender. About trusting that even if you can’t see what’s next, God still can.”
