Baywatch bombshell Nicole Eggert, 52, shaves her head during battle with ‘very rare’ form of breast cancer

Nicole Eggert shaved her head in a new video shared with her more than 143,000 Instagram followers on Thursday amid her battle with breast cancer.

The footage showed the 52-year-old actress, who rose to fame as Summer Quinn in the TV series Baywatch, bravely shaving off her pixie haircut.

Apparently she was accompanied by one of her daughters, who stepped in towards the end to lend a hand with the razor.

Eggert smiled as she showed off her newly shaved bald head to the camera as she sat in the middle of her living room.

“Maybe healing is not so much about changing ourselves, but about allowing ourselves to be who we are,” Eggert captioned the post, quoting Madeleine Eames.

The comments section was full of kind messages from her loved ones and fans, many of whom called her a “bada**.”

“Sending you a big hug❤,” actress Jennie Garth captioned the post.

Meanwhile, Alyssa Milano wrote, “Grace. You have the most grace. It’s inspiring and I appreciate you.’

‘It’s crazy how incredibly beautiful you are! You rock that look!’ one fan commented.

Eggert first announced in December 2023 that she had been diagnosed with a ‘very rare’ breast cancer.

Last month she told Inside Edition that doctors had found more cancer in her lymph nodes.

Eggert said she is “kidding herself” because she doesn’t regularly check her breasts and that tissue from the breast implants she got at age 19 made it harder to detect any abnormalities in her breast.

The star stated that after gaining about 25 pounds and feeling pain in her left breast starting in October, she underwent a mammogram and three biopsies — which resulted in a diagnosis of stage 2 cribriform carcinoma of breast cancer.

She said: ‘When I felt it, my heart dropped and I thought, oh my God. No one could take me, so I walked into every breast care center. It’s horrifying because every day and every minute that passes, you know it’s growing.

Just a month later, a mammogram finally confirmed her fears: Eggert had stage 2 breast cancer.

She said: ‘My heart sank, I lost all my hearing, everything sank. It’s called invasive cribriform carcinoma. It’s very rare.’

‘The self-exams, I tell you, I’m kicking myself. That’s the one thing I should have done.’

However, she says the tissue of her breast implants made self-exams difficult, saying: ‘If I didn’t have them and I had my smaller, natural breasts, I’m sure I would have felt it much sooner’ – before naming it branded. implants a ‘big mistake’.

Eggert — a mother of two daughters — told People in December, “This journey has been hard for me.”

“This has not been a light-hearted journey through life,” the actress said, adding that she has focused on positivity. “I always read inspiring quotes and corny things, but I get through it.”

Nicole revealed that her next steps include surgery to remove the cancer, as well as undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. The star added that it is currently unclear whether the cancer has spread.

As for the lump, she explained, “I can definitely feel it. It’s there. It needs to be taken out. So it’s just a matter of do I need to do treatment before the surgery or can they do the surgery and then I do the treatment afterward.”

Eggert was candid about the difficulty of waiting, saying, “I’m panicking where I am, just get this out of me.”

‘You sit there and it’s in you and you think: every second that passes, it’s in me. It grows, and you just want it gone.”

Nicole is mum to daughters Dilyn, 25, and Keegan, 12, and admitted her ‘biggest fear’ is no longer for her children.

She explained that while Dilyn is “grown,” the actress also “has a 12-year-old at home and I am the sole caregiver. I have no family. I do not have anything.’

The Blown Away actress recalled the moment she told her children about her breast cancer diagnosis, remembering “the horror” on Keegan’s face.

‘It immediately made me realize: you simply cannot give in to this. This is something I have to go through. This is something I have to beat. She needs me more than anything.”

The star – who is a single mother – told People that things haven’t been easy financially.

“My fear is that my daily hustle, everything I do to keep things going, will come to a grinding halt if I’m not feeling well or sick or in the hospital or whatever is going on. ‘

Nicole continued, “It’s so overwhelming, and I’m doing everything I can to keep the spiral from happening.”

“When I lie down at night, I panic because I think, ‘Well, who’s going to pay all the bills? Who’s going to do all this?'”

Eggert’s good friend, Mindy Molinary, has one GoFundMe for Nicole to help the star with finances as her health battle begins.

The actress shared a link to the page on her social media accounts including Instagram.