Jill Martin Brooks is taking another emotional step in her breast cancer journey. After losing her hair during chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, Jill, 47, shared videos on Instagram of her experience shopping for a new wig.
“It’s really hard and strange,” the TODAY contributor said in one Instagram Story posted Dec. 27 while showing the shelves of wigs to choose from. “But I’ll make believe I’m playing dress-up,” she says. “Maybe I’ll be a brunette.”
In another Instagram Story, Jill shows off a blond wig, playing with the strands and tucking some behind her ear.
“This looks just like me, right?” she asks the camera, with tears in her eyes. “It’s hard. But … I feel like I could style it,” she continues. “It’s fun. It’s like playing dress-up. I’m dressing up as myself.”
In another Instagram Story posted earlier in the day, Jill also shared that she’d lost her eyebrows and eyelashes about three weeks after chemotherapy. “I’m going to get eyelashes now,” she says in the video. “Sort of like an ambush makeover on myself.”
She also shared a selfie after getting her eyelashes done. In the picture, Jill is all smiles after she shows off her new look, inspired by her appearance prior to being diagnosed with cancer.
Diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer earlier this year, Jill has been candid about the ups and downs of her experience. She’s undergone a double mastectomy, had 17 lymph nodes removed and endured an aggressive chemotherapy regimen.
In an effort to preserve her hair, she also tried cold-capping, a procedure that freezes the blood vessels in the scalp, reducing the amount of chemotherapy drugs that get into follicles.
“At the beginning, I (was) like, I’ll just shave my head. And for some people, that is their journey and that’s soothing for them,” Jill said on TODAY in October….
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