Real Housewives of Miami Guerdy Abraira Kicks of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Guerdy Abraira talks about being diagnosed with breast cancer while filming Bravo's Real Housewives of Miami.

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00:00Now, our next guest is a name that you might know from the Real Housewives of Miami, but

00:05she was also named one of the best-known designers in the country by Vogue, but she has also

00:11become well-known in the cancer community, now revolutionizing the cancer field with

00:16new products.

00:17Gertie Abrera is joining me now.

00:19Gertie, it is such a pleasure to have you here today.

00:23Thank you for joining us.

00:24Thank you so much.

00:25I am still pinching myself.

00:26This is super surreal.

00:27I mean, especially, you know, for you, you are a breast cancer survivor.

00:31You were diagnosed in March last year, but we saw all of this play out live on the Real

00:37Housewives of Miami.

00:39Walk me through that process.

00:41I mean, learning about your diagnosis, while the lights, camera, you know, your castmates,

00:47everybody was there, and then also going through the process.

00:50It was a very hard decision, actually, because, you know, I had to be protective of myself,

00:55my family, and everything around me, but something, and that's maybe the men upstairs

01:00that said, you know what, this is something you have to do, and it just came about very

01:04naturally and organically, and my husband and I looked at each other, and we're like,

01:07this is the right thing, because we signed up for the show to do what?

01:10To show great lifestyle and so forth, but also the reality of life itself, and that

01:14maybe is sad sometimes and hard sometimes and scary, so I wanted to show all facets

01:19of my life, and I didn't, I never looked back.

01:21Amazing.

01:22How important was your decision to use your platform and bring awareness to this cause?

01:26A hundred percent.

01:27The timing could not have been more on time, as far as from the diagnosis to literally

01:33the last episode, me walking into getting chemo, so you have to tell yourself, this

01:37is me showing a full-bodied experience of something that's really scary, but it showed

01:43people the courage that you can have, the resilience that you can have, and that you

01:47put your best foot forward, and with things, you know, with surroundings and communities

01:50like the American Cancer Society, you can get through it, you know?

01:54And you know, you have two sons.

01:56Yes.

01:57You are a mom to two boys.

01:58Yes.

01:59How was that?

02:00You know, going through the diagnosis, going through the treatment, I mean, you actually

02:03shaved your head on camera, and you were balancing this while also being a mom to your boys.

02:07Yes.

02:08How was that?

02:09Protective mode, so you don't see my sons on screen a lot, and that was a very coordinated

02:16decision, just because I wanted to protect their feelings and their surrounding, and

02:22you do see them once in a while, but those are with moments where we share the news that,

02:27you know, I'm going to be okay, so we wanted to give that aspiration to the boys so that

02:31they know that mom is going to make it, and to be honest, I didn't even think I was going

02:35to have any kind of scary episodes, because I was only stage 1B, but then given the chemo,

02:41my body actually rejected the first round, and I ended up getting a blood clot from it,

02:45so you can't predict that you're going to be okay, but I had to say it to my boys so

02:50that it didn't put a damper on their spirit, so it was something that I decided to do,

02:54and actually my husband is the one that broke the news to them about what I had, because

02:58I was too emotional to even break it to them myself, so we did it as a family, and everyone

03:02does it their way, it just happens to work for me and mine.

03:04Oh my gosh, this is truly such a heartfelt story, but you know, you're cancer-free now.

03:09Oh yes, we're celebrating every day.

03:12We are so happy to have you join us, sharing your touching, touching story.

03:17Thank you so much, Gertie, it was a pleasure speaking with you.

03:19Thank you for having me.

03:20We're appreciating being here, and the American Cancer Society is such an amazing organization,

03:24and I'm just happy to help represent.

03:25Great, thank you so much.

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