Molly-Mae Hague has candidly opened up in an Instagram Q&A about finding a lump in her breast.
The Love Island star, 22, revealed in September how she had undergone surgery to remove a lump from her breast after a biopsy revealed it had grown in size.
And when one of her 6.2 million fans on the social media platform asked on Monday about her experience after finding a lump of her own, the blonde beauty recorded a video saying: "This is obviously a really serious one.
"I'm really sorry that you found a lump. I know it can be so scary. I was literally in bed when I found mine.
"I was like lying in bed with Tommy and sort of lying really far back and sort of went like that [cupped side] on my boob and I literally felt it."
She continued to answer on her Stories: "Honestly, I think when you find a lump you sort of think how have I not felt this before?
"It must have come around so quickly, how have I not noticed it before? Mine was literally, it felt like a literal golf ball. It felt huge.
"Actually at first they recommended that I didn't have the lump removed at all. They said it was something called a fibroadenoma and it's benign and not serious, but I think that as a woman to have to just live with a huge lump in your boob, for me it just didn't sit right."
Talking about what she did next she told her fan that she kept pushing back to the doctors to get it removed and put the caption "check your boobs!" underneath the video.
She added: "I think when you know something is not right with your body you just know and I didn't want to just sit and wait for years to come for the lump to potentially turn into something sinister."
She joked that her explanation had "turned into a story time" but said that was her "experience".
The Pretty Little Thing creative director first revealed she had found a lump in August and explained that as it was growing she wanted it checked.
At the time she said: "It's an important subject and we should all be checking our boobs and checking for lumps so we can do things like this."
It came just months after she was told a mole she'd had removed from her leg was a malignant melanoma, which is a type of skin cancer.
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