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Jaime Pressly Reveals That She Had a Mastectomy

Jaime Pressly made a surprising revelation when she was on The Talk yesterday: She had a mastectomy after suffering mastitis when she gave birth to her son, Dezi, in 2007. Mastitis is a painful infection of breast tissue, usually caused by bacteria, that most often occurs in breast-feeding moms, though it can affect other women too. Jaime told the hosts: "I have a high threshold for pain, I was a dancer for 25 years. When I had my son, I got mastitis, but I didn't know, 'cause I thought it was just regular breast-feeding pain." Four years later, she noticed lumps on her breasts and went to the doctor. The diagnosis? She says that there was so much scar tissue on her breasts that both were almost fully surgically removed. Pressly said: "I still have some breast tissue left, just from the mastitis because it mutated into something else because it sat dormant for a while.... But it was the craziest thing. Thank God it wasn't [cancer]." Mastitis is usually successfully treated via antibiotics, but—as Jaime proves—extreme cases require taking out all infected tissue, and a mastectomy due to mastitis is super rare. Honestly, I really had no idea this

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Jaime Pressly made a surprising revelation when she was on The Talk yesterday: She had a mastectomy after suffering mastitis when she gave birth to her son, Dezi, in 2007.

Mastitis is a painful infection of breast tissue, usually caused by bacteria, that most often occurs in breast-feeding moms, though it can affect other women too. Jaime told the hosts: "I have a high threshold for pain, I was a dancer for 25 years. When I had my son, I got mastitis, but I didn't know, 'cause I thought it was just regular breast-feeding pain."

Four years later, she noticed lumps on her breasts and went to the doctor. The diagnosis? She says that there was so much scar tissue on her breasts that both were almost fully surgically removed.

Pressly said: "I still have some breast tissue left, just from the mastitis because it mutated into something else because it sat dormant for a while.... But it was the craziest thing. Thank God it wasn't [cancer]."

Mastitis is usually successfully treated via antibiotics, but—as Jaime proves—extreme cases require taking out all infected tissue, and a mastectomy due to mastitis is super rare.

Honestly, I really had no idea this could happen—did you? So glad Jaime's doing well now!