1352. Life After a Double Mastectomy: Jackie Tohn on Recovery, Intimacy & Her Health Now PLUS Nobody Wants This Cast Secrets
Episode 35 min 39s

1352. Life After a Double Mastectomy: Jackie Tohn on Recovery, Intimacy & Her Health Now PLUS Nobody Wants This Cast Secrets

Hey Heal Squad! We’re back with Nobody Wants This star Jackie Tohn, and today she gets incredibly candid about what life actually looks and feels like after a preventive double mastectomy following her BRCA1 discovery. She talks about waking up with reconstructed breasts, what surprised her about recovery, losing sensation in her breasts and nipples, and the complicated reality of knowing you made the right decision while still grieving the body you had before. And this one hit us: before surgery, Jackie did a nude photo shoot to document her breast, but she still hasn’t been able to look at the pictures.But in true Jackie fashion, there was also a LOT of joy with her mastectomy. She takes us inside her hilarious “Boob Voyage” party, the incredible women who showed up for her, and the support system that carried her through one of the hardest chapters of her life.Then we lighten things WAY up and get into Nobody Wants This! Jackie spills on her castmates, her longtime friendship with Kristen Bell, what everyone is really like when the cameras stop rolling, and a truly insane prank involving Justine Lupe, Kristen and what Kristen thought was a jug of pee. Yes, you read that correctly.



HEALERS & HEAL LINERS

  • You can know you made the right decision and still grieve what you lost. Jackie opens up about accepting her reconstructed breasts while admitting she still isn’t ready to look at photos of her body before surgery.

  • Healing doesn’t have to look serious all the time. Jackie turned an incredibly difficult chapter into a “Boob Voyage,” surrounding herself with the people who loved her and finding moments of joy even when she was scared and grieving.

  • Sometimes the people who’ve been through it become your greatest resource. Jackie shares how women who had already faced mastectomy helped guide her, and how she’s now passing that same support forward to other women navigating their own surgeries.



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