‘So Grateful’: Marcia Cross Celebrates End Of Secret Cancer Battle
Sep. 27 2018, Updated 12:05 p.m. ET
Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross is now “happy” and healthy again after a long and difficult battle with anal cancer.
Last week, the beautiful redhead shared a series of Instagram posts in which she described her journey and recovery.
Posting a photo of herself with short hair from her chemotherapy, Cross, 56, wrote: “So grateful and happy to be alive but sad that my hair fell out and is about 1 inch long now and looks cra cra.”
“Anyone else have #hairloss due to #cancer? Talk to me. I feel you,” she added.
Worried fans took her posts as signs that the actress still had cancer, which prompted her to share further messages clarifying she was finally out of the woods.
“I am so sorry my post wasn’t clear,” she wrote. “I am POST cancer. All good now. Hard journey, but I am HEALTHY, happy, and more present and grateful than ever. Thank you from the bottom of my ever expanding heart for all of your LOVE,” she wrote, clearly overwhelmed by the waves of support she received from her social media followers.
“After posting a picture of myself here and uttering the words #cancer and #hairloss, I felt liberated, deliriously free and completely me,” she said. “How or why this simple act gave me such a powerful lift I did not question, but I thanked God or whatever gave me the internal push to move forward and expose myself.”
Cross added that she didn’t expect the amounts of kindness she received from fans and loved ones, but they made her cancer-free celebration that much better. As RadarOnline.com readers know, Cross also had the support of longtime husband Tom Mahoney, 60, and daughters Savannah, 11, and Eden, 11.
“I certainly wasn’t expecting the response of love and kindness that flowed to me,” continued Marcia Cross. “My capacity to receive requires a massive expansion! I am ecstatically alive and what interests me post-cancer is #AUTHENTICITY. #VULNERABILITY. #TRANSPARENCY. And of course #LOVE.”
“If you were wondering,” she added, “I had #analcancer. I know, right?!” the actress concluded.
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