Radio host and TV personality Sam Frost has revealed she’s headed into surgery following a health scare.
The 27-year-old told listeners on her 2DayFM radio show that she’d recently had an abnormal pap smear result that showed “quite a bit of pre-cancerous cells”.
She says she decided to tell listeners about the “high-grade abnormality” in a bid to raise awareness of the importance of getting regular pap smears to test for cancerous cells.
Rove McManus’s co-host informed her audience that she was heading into surgery on Wednesday to have the cells removed, but that it was “nothing to be alarmed about”.
The former Bachelorette star announced her news live on air.
“It’s a really common thing,” Sam said. “And easily treated.”
Rove then hurriedly assured fans that everything was going to be OK.
“The biopsy has been done, everything’s fine,” Rove added: “You’re okay. No need for anyone to be panicking or anything like that.”
Sam agreed, explaining that she wanted to get it all out there so that people would get checked.
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“I wanted to have this opportunity to say to the ladies, and even the guys out there to get their girlfriends on board or their sisters: go to the doctors and get a pap smear.
“It is so uncomfortable and it’s the worst, and I know so many of my friends that put them off. It’s a really common thing and it’s so easily treated.”
She continued: “If you don’t catch it then obviously it advances into more scarier things. But if you get it at this [pre-cancerous] stage, easy-peasy, no dramas, (it’s) a nice, simple procedure.”
The former Bachelor star continued: “So, ladies, please call your GP, get it out of the way and just know that S Fro’s on your side.”
Sam has the support of her handsome beau, Sasha.
