Tina Knowles Reveals Breast Most cancers Battle After Missed Mammogram (Unique)

Tina Knowles has an pressing message for ladies all over the place as she reveals her non-public breast most cancers journey.

“It is necessary to not slack in your mammograms,” the celebrity mother and writer of emotional new memoir Matriarch tells PEOPLE, opening up for the primary time about her current, life-changing well being ordeal on this week’s World’s Most Stunning subject.

Mother to Beyoncé, 43, and Solange, 38, Knowles, 71, was blindsided final July when she says medical doctors found stage 1 breast most cancers in her left breast. The information got here not lengthy after she and Beyoncé launched their Cécred hair care line, as she was within the midst of ending writing Matriarch (out now wherever books are bought).

“I struggled with whether or not I might share that journey [in the book] as a result of I am very non-public. However I made a decision to share it as a result of I believe it is a whole lot of classes in it for different ladies,” she says. “And I believe as ladies, generally we get so busy and we get so wrapped up and working round, however you have to go get your check. As a result of if I had not gotten my check early, I imply, I shudder to assume what may have occurred to me.”

The truth is, Knowles herself had missed getting her scheduled mammogram. “I forgot that I did not go to get my check two years earlier than I believed I had,” she says, “as a result of Covid got here they usually referred to as me and canceled me they usually mentioned, we’ll name you after we begin testing once more. And I simply thought I had completed it. So you can not mess around with that.”

In Matriarch, she shares how her daughters grappled with the information. Beyoncé, she writes, “took it effectively, staying optimistic, and I may already really feel her thoughts racing, specializing in this as a job to deal with with precision.” In the meantime, Solange mentioned, “Mother, we’re going to deal with this.” With bonus daughters Kelly Rowland and her niece Angie Beyince additionally by her facet, she writes, “My ladies turned my staff.”

Knowles says she was not discovered to have breast most cancers genes and that her household doesn’t have a historical past of the illness. (Her ex-husband and Beyoncé and Solange’s dad Mathew Knowles efficiently handled stage 1 breast most cancers as effectively and has mentioned he possesses the BRCA2 gene mutation, which will increase the danger of varied cancers, together with breast most cancers).

Late final 12 months Knowles underwent surgical procedure to take away the tumor, in addition to a breast discount. “I’m doing nice,” she says. “Most cancers-free and extremely blessed that God allowed me to search out it early.”

On prime of wanting ladies to get their screenings on time (“I did not know that there was a stage 0. I may have caught this at stage 0 if I had not missed my mammogram”), Knowles says additionally, “I need to present folks you’ll be able to undergo that and nonetheless be fly.”

Lately, “I’m more healthy, consuming higher, I misplaced weight,” she says.

Most significantly, the grandmother of 4 sees herself for instance of what is potential.

“I need to give folks hope,” Knowles provides. “What scares me now is just not making the perfect of on daily basis that I’ve left on this life.”

For extra on Tina Knowles’s well being journey and engaging life story, decide up this week’s subject of PEOPLE, obtainable now.