The Great British Bake Off’s wise-cracking Sue Perkins revealed that she has a brain tumour and yesterday thanked fans for their support.
The 45-year-old Croydon-born comedian was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumour, prolactinoma, eight years ago.
Fortunately she says the tumour is ‘benign and non-symptomatic’ although she did reveal that doctors told her that she wouldn’t be able to have children.
Ta for sweet tweets about my prolactinoma. It’s benign & non-symptomatic. All fine, Let’s focus on those less fortunate in the world. X
— Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) September 1, 2015
The presenter, who co-hosts the hit baking show with long time comedy partner Mel Giedroyc, said that infertility had hit her particularly hard when Mel had her first child.
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She told Good Housekeeping magazine: “I don’t know if I would have gone on to have children. But as soon as someone says you can’t have something, you want it more than anything.
“Sometimes it screws up my hormones. I have various tests now to make sure the side effects aren’t too onerous.
“Sometimes it’s big and makes me mad, and sometimes it’s small and is in the background.”
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