Jessie J has further updated fans on her recovery after undergoing surgery for breast cancer.
The Price Tag hitmaker, 37, revealed in June that she had been diagnosed with an ‘early’ form of the disease following numerous tests.
Jessie, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, assured fans that she was remaining hopeful, joking that having an operation was ‘a very dramatic way to get a boob job’.
The pop star made her final public appearance at the Capital Summertime Ball, after which she ‘disappeared’ to have surgery and recover.
Jessie has been keeping fans in the loop throughout the whole thing, with her latest post marking somewhat of a milestone in her treatment.
Informing her 14million followers that she has decided to stop taking pain meds, she wrote on her Instagram Story: ‘I am 11 days post surgery. I’m good. I miss being an active Mum / human the most. But it’s been nice to slow down and Sky is having a blast with Nanny and Grandad.’
She continued: ‘It’s still uncomfortable / a little painful but I can handle that. I’m doing my exercises and taking all the healthy things. I have been trying to eat super clean.
‘I have stopped taking all pain meds. Just not my thing. Also like to feel how it feels so I don’t overdo it.’
Jessie added that she is still ‘feeling positive and grateful’.
In a second post, she issued somewhat of a public service announcement to her fans who might see her out and about.
‘If you do see me out, sitting in a park or coming out of a doctors appointment or eating or walking or anything, and I seem a little out of it. I am.’
She assured people that it’s ‘nothing personal’, but it simply a side effect of her treatment.
‘I don’t have what I usually have to give energy wise, understandably.’
However, Jessie is determined to get back to her old self in time, concluding: ‘I will get there. It’s a slow road. For now I am taking it easy. Enjoying the slow vibes and staying positive.’
Her newest posts come after Jessie had to explain what she meant when people assumed she was suddenly ‘cancer-free’.
After telling the world that her op had been a success, the Bang Bang singer wrote on her Insta Story: ‘I’m getting a lot of messages saying so happy all the cancer has gone. To be clear I added the [fingers crossed] emoji as it’s a hope not a fact.’
She later clarified her emoji use further with a lengthy feed post, writing: ‘You have misunderstood my post.
‘I posted a list of pros and cons of having breast cancer surgery. The first pro I put was… The cancer has all gone.
‘This was a positive affirmation NOT a fact. I don’t have my results yet. I added the emoji in thinking people would understand and clearly a lot didn’t.
‘A weird situation. My fault for not being clearer. But for now I do not have my results after surgery which was only 6 nights ago.
‘I pray it will be true soon but the journey of cancer isn’t that simple unfortunately.’
Jessie has had plenty of support from her followers and celebrity pals throughout cancer treatment, with the likes of Paloma Faith hailing her as ‘unimaginably brave’ and Joss Stone calling her ‘inspiring’.
And it’s Jessie’s defiant attitude that has really resonated with fans since the moment her diagnosis was confirmed.
While on stage at the Capital STB in Wembley Stadium, she vowed to ‘beat’ breast cancer.
During an emotional goodbye speech, she told the thousands-strong crowd: ‘If you know of my career or you don’t, or if you discovered me last week or right now or 15 years ago, you’ll know that I’ve always been an open book, a very honest person, and today, this show is my last show before I go and beat breast cancer.
‘It’s so special to me, you have no idea.’
Jessie continued: ‘I feel so proud to be from the UK and to be this honest person; we just say what we feel, and this being my last show before I go and have surgery and all the things is the most special thing, and I’m so grateful for this life, for you guys, for my career, my son, my partner, my parents, my family, my band, my crew, my people…
‘We’re so lucky; we have so much to live for.’
Jessie is a proud mum to son Sky, who was born in May 2023. She shares the little one with professional basketball player Chanan Colman, whom she began dating in 2021.
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