She is one of the best-known presenters in Germany: Sonya Kraus. Now the 48-year-old is talking about her breast cancer diagnosis for the first time.
Update from February 17, 9:15 a.m .: After presenter Sonya Kraus made her breast cancer public on February 16, the 48-year-old reported with a video on her Instagram account. There she speaks openly and honestly about the fact that she is currently undergoing chemotherapy – voluntarily. She wants to be on the safe side. “I’m doing fantastic. I even kept most of my hair – thanks to a cooling cap. But why am I telling you all this?” said the moderator. “I want you to go to preventive care! The preventive examination of 20 minutes saved my life,” she asks her fans and followers.
All stars such as singer and influencer Chany Dakota, “No Angels” star Lucy Diakovska and presenter Marlene Lufen commented on the video of the former “Talk Talk Talk” presenter. “You are such a strong woman!” wrote Chany Dakota. The influencer is currently in front of the camera together with Sonya Kraus for filming “Das Internat”. Her fans are also very impressed by the video and are given new courage by her statements: “Mega statement. You are a role model through and through!” commented one user. Sonya Kraus had her breasts removed during the operation and rebuilt with silicone implants. In the video, the moderator looks tough and strong – she doesn’t look sad, but confident. That she might offend others with her style – she had already thought about that herself: “I’ve also felt a little bit that I sometimes run over, shock, baffle people with the way I deal with my illness.” , she admitted in the RTL Exclusiv interview.
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Sonya Kraus speaks for the first time about her breast cancer diagnosis and wants to encourage other women
First report from February 16, 9:36 a.m .: Frankfurt – A regular routine check-up with the doctor should be in every calendar. This date was also on the calendar of presenter Sonya Kraus. But then there is the waiting and the fear that anything could be found in the results. The 48-year-old lived through this terrible moment. “There’s something, Ms. Kraus,” said the Frankfurt gynecologist to the presenter. A sentence that can change your whole life within a few seconds. The diagnosis: breast cancer. A highly aggressive tumor that luckily was detected early enough. Now Sonya Kraus is talking about her illness for the first time and would also like to encourage other women to go for regular check-ups. Even if you feel completely healthy.
Sonya Kraus talks about her breast cancer diagnosis: “But these 20 minutes can save your life”
In an interview with Bunte magazine, the 48-year-old gives her first private and emotional insight since her first diagnosis in autumn 2021. When asked how the moderator is doing, she replies: “I’m fine”. She would have preferred to talk about a different topic – but “that’s the way it is”. Her absolute favorite saying of the last few months is: “It is what it is”. She wants to encourage people to take regular check-ups. She sees it as her mission and an affair of the heart. “In this pandemic, many women unfortunately dare to go to the doctor far too late. There are a thousand good reasons not to go for preventive care: no time, no desire, Corona, it won’t be anything, I don’t like my gynecologist. But these 20 minutes can save your life,” the 48-year-old continued in an interview. She then hinted that if she hadn’t gone for the routine check-up, “I might not be alive” – an honest, thought-provoking statement. “One in two people will be diagnosed with cancer in the course of their lives, one in eight women will get breast cancer,” says the moderator.
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Sonya Kraus talks about her cancer diagnosis: she had both breasts removed
Now the moderator revealed in an interview with stern that she had her breasts removed: “A total, bilateral mastectomy – even if the knot was small and the left breast was healthy. Breast-conserving surgery would also have been feasible, but I wanted to be as radical as possible. Anything else would have worried me too much.” When she found out about her diagnosis, she was standing in her friend’s and neighbor’s garden: “The professor called me. I felt strange, like the air pressure was dropping in a matter of milliseconds. Life stops short. The brain doesn’t get it at first. But then it “clicked” for me and I thought about who to call first”. She now took care of her appointments herself – but the moderator was never afraid. “No. I think I’m extremely resilient because my brother died when I was six and my father took his own life when I was eleven. That means that even as a small child, as a young person, I learned how to deal with strokes of fate, challenges and real problems,” she admitted in the interview. Sonya Kraus is currently back in front of the camera for the upcoming season of “Das Internat”.
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