Elle MacPherson says she fought cancer "holistically".

"Elle Macpherson promoting anti-vax campaign during pandemic"

"Be careful, Elle. I tried to manage my own care too."

Be like Steve Jobs, Elle!

The Mirror website has more pop-ups than a jack-in-the-box factory. Remind me never to visit again.

Elle seems.....dumb.

"On January 11, 2023, Tatjana Patitz died of metastatic breast cancer in Santa Barbara, California, at age 56"

R4, do you use an ad-blocker?

RIP, Tatjana.

Yet Elle still walks among us...

She saw 32 doctors and refused their advice?

Entitled cunt wasting their time.

[quote] Intraductal carcinoma, also known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), is a pre-cancerous breast condition where abnormal cells are found in the lining of a milk duct. DCIS is considered a precursor to invasive breast cancer, but it's not always invasive

This is what AI says about the type of cancer she had. So she had a lumpectomy and then decided to roll the dice. I can understand that choice. But it’s hard to respect that choice when it’s followed by the claim that it was eight months of even more navel gazing self indulgence following the lumpectomy that saved her.

She comes off as remarkably unlikeable and very dumb.

Since when is she a rage fueled coke-aholic?

You haven't heard the stories from hundreds of airline stewards, r9?

Now, of course, she's a sanctimonious cow:

'Everybody has their own journey and I'm not interested in telling other people what to do but I know that this was a decision that I've never regretted,' she said.

'Although it required discipline and persistence the bottom line is you can't be well and present in your life if you're not present and well, and alcohol doesn't really support that.'

She previously dated Andrew Wakefield, which means she's into all kinds of quackery.

Rage and cocaine abuse?

How unprofessional.

This is what the Mayo Clinic says about DCIS:

"In most people, treatment options for DCIS include:

Breast-conserving surgery, called a lumpectomy, and radiation therapy. Breast-removing surgery, called a mastectomy.

In some people, treatment options may include:

Lumpectomy only. Lumpectomy and hormone therapy."

Chemotherapy is not mentioned. So where did she find 32 doctors (who goes to 32 doctors?) who told her she needed chemo?

DCIS is one of those cancers, like prosate, that doctors will tell you used to be over-treated. They are now quite conservative with it. You can have a mastectomy if you really want, but they mostly recommend a lumpectomy. The use of radiation is probably a "just to be sure" measure, so you could be stupid and refuse it and still have a fair chance of getting away with it.

These holistic types really get up my nose. They KNOW they're talking BS.

Well, using "holistic" treatments against cancer certainly worked for Suzanne Sommers....

Maybe she was on the alkaline diet? Like other idiots with more money than sense.

I did it with hormones, lipo and herbs. Oh, wait--

Funny - so she just sat on this for 7 years and now wants to make a statement implying traditional cancer treatments are worthless?

Fuck this bitch.

Oh - and she always had a banging body but her face wasn't anything to write home about. The least interesting look of all the supermodels.

[quote]Elle headed to Phoenix, Arizona, for eight months where she "holistically treated" the condition while following guidance from her own doctor, naturopathy, holistic dentist, osteopath, chiropractor and two therapists.

What the fuck is a holistic dentist?

It's a sad day when sane people start taking advice from dolts like Elle MacPherson.

I know one of these big pharma conspiracy/antivaxx nuts. he went to a holistic dentist and even he told me afterwards that it was garbage and went to see a regular dentist the following week.

So brave. Such a scien....

Well, adjacent.

See you soon!

Didn't Farrah Fawcett pursue "natural" treatments?

OP~ I have never heard tha Elle was a coke fueled rage a holic.. Until now! Let me google!

I loved the story about Billy Joel dumping her and kicking her out of his place for Christy Brinkley.

R22, the tit is NOT the dirty asshole!

She’s an alcoholic in recovery and she has the same personality type as soooo many in recovery. Including RFK Jr who has this personality type. She got over the booze / cocaine / heroin and she now thinks she is the world’s health expert and nothing impure can enter her body. A lot of addicts have this extreme black-and-white thinking. There’s a lady in my AA group who believes she is curing herself of cancer by walking miles a day and eating a specialized diet (and praying of course). People do this all the time. Some people are too fragile mentally to interface with the healthcare system and they overthink it and can’t trust anyone (hence, Elle seeing 30 doctors). It happens a lot. They either get lucky and have a super slow growing cancer like the lady in AA group or they die .

This happened with my mother. She chose a mastectomy and by doing that didn't need to go through the stress of radiation and worry. It was caught in her annual mammogram in her 70s. She's now in her 80s. Elle isn't that young or that old but hormones can make the cancer grow. My mom stopped all her hormone therapy with the diagnosis so I don't know what this moron is bragging about.

Interesting that the article at r24 didn't mention her marriage to Gilles Bensimon who frequently featured her in US Elle magazine during the 80s.

Check out the linked article - second photo down she looks like that 80s actress who fucked up her face spectacularly.

Hey, Elle, don't forget the Mexican coffee enemas.

[quote]32 doctors

Yes, but 31 of them were named "Dr Feel Good."

I feel like these celeb women choose holistic treatments because they don’t want their breast(s) chopped off which will make them somehow less than perfect or desirable to others. Pure vanity and ego.

Jolie had her breasts taken off, reconstructed and then showed them off in the movie with Pitt. Quite the PR move.

They sit too high for that size. Together with all the work on her face, she's been under the knife a as much as a Kardashian.

At least she probably won't get breast cancer, though.

She looks a bit robotic in the silver dress. The structure of the gown really creates curves she doesn't always have. A lot of the gowns she wore when with Pitt did not suit her frame.

Elle's made a lot of money from her funbags.

She's always been a tacky bitch.

Someone at Today doesn't like Elle.

Her left eye is all wonked up. She looks like Andy Choen's older sister.

That's a typo. She actually fought cancer dumb whoristically.

She started a supplement company in 2014. It is all about "wellness" and "natural".

Probably her primary source of income?

It would be difficult to be so totally self-involved and self-indulgent if you weren't so totally self-indulgent and self-involved.

[quote] Interesting that the article at [R24] didn't mention her marriage to Gilles Bensimon who frequently featured her in US Elle magazine during the 80s.

Gilles Bensimon was also married to Kelly Bensimon of Real Housewives of NY. Kelly and Elle have a very similar look.

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Looking incredibly like a linebacker.

Riiight. She only started drinking after she put her kids to bed.

Isn’t it just going to come back a couple years later. It’s that how Suzanne Sommers died. It sounds like they have just made their immune systems super strong and robust but the cancer is not truly gone.

She's not as fascinating as she thinks she is.

Didn’t the Friends cast hate her?

I guess she embraces a painful, cancer-ridden death in the parts that gsined her the most money. It's her choice, but if she has children who care, she will be devastating them.

If she's already divulged her extreme drinking habits, what other dirt can be left to read about in the book?

Oh, that's right: She wants to in$pire people. Plus there are $upplement$ to $ell.

She's raising eyebrows even though her own are disappearing. Along with her upper lip.

People who sell supplements are the new door-to-door snakeoil salespeople.

R48 I would go that for with it. But if I have fucking cancer Imma do with them doctors say is best.

How fucked up are her sons? If she was really drinking herself into unconsciousness every night, then waking and purging (THREE TIMES, bitches!) before going to bed, what the hell kind of mother was she?

Now if she dies from cancer, the younger one who called chemo the kiss of death will suffer guilt, and the "more convertional" older one will feel like shit for not getting her to listen to him.

She's fucking nuts. All to be in the news again and sell a shitty book along with supplements that cost more because she owns the company.

Suzanne Somersault lived for quite a long time, after her cancer diagnosis,though. Decades, actually.

so did Olivia Newton John, r51

ONJ hadn't been well for years before her death, though?

Alcoholics are never good parents. EVER. They also rarely apologize for all the fucked up things they say and do because they don’t remember doing any of it.

I hate it when celebrities publicize alternative treatments to potentially terminal conditions. There's a wide swath of people that listen to their advice and take it without considering the efficacy of the treatment and how medically sound it is. This seems to go hand in hand with our polarized political environment now, people on the far ends of the spectrum are the ones most likely to heed the alternative health advice no matter how insane. YouTube is awash with gurus now pushing this . Good medical consumers thoroughly research treatment outcomes and side effects. They also understand peer-reviewed research and can interpret statistics.

[quote]There's a wide swath of people that listen to their advice and take it without considering the efficacy of the treatment and how medically sound it is.

Yeah, this is really irresponsible. It's not just herself she's hurting.

People who would take medical advice from Elle are people we need to be rid of, so this is working out very well for us.

They shouldn’t advertise their alternative remedies.

Did ONJ use those? She lived a very long time after her diagnosis. Same for Suzanne S who lived pretty much as long as you can having cancer. It was almost 3 decades.

I can remember SS talking about taking something made from mistletoe decades ago. I think the types of treatments she used were legion.

I wouldn't wish chemo on anyone, but I am very grateful that certain loved ones have/are used/using it. They're not ready to go, and are much-loved.

Mistletoe seems to be a popular remedy among these kooks.

Oh really, I thought Suzanne's special remedy was cameltoe, heaven's know she had enough of it!

Sensible words from Julia Baird - Sydney Morning Herald journalist and cancer survivor.

And, in my experience, an all around good egg.

Thanks for posting, r62.

An operation a holistic procedure? Elle has been mental for a while.

This is all about promoting her “wellness” products.

She’s a classic butterface.

My God, she looks like a 62-year-old Ralph Macchio! What’s her secret?

I had a friend pursue natural “treatments” including an alkaline diet, and she died 5 years after diagnosis. Another friend and former coworker is a little past 5 years on her natural “treatments” and you can tell she’s not doing well at all. I hate to say I’ll be surprised if she’s still alive in a couple years, but I think the inevitable outcome is that she won’t be. Both breast cancer.

Why is breast cancer so common? Birth control pills?

Dr Norman Swann on the ABC (Australia) this morning commented on this. He said approximately 30% of DCIS never progresses to cancer. If MacPherson had the luck to be in that group, then nothing she did either way is likely to have influenced the outcome.

However, he noted that that means 70% of DCIS WILL progress in time, so you're a bloody idiot (my words, his meaning) if you don't attempt to combat it.

Lumpectomy is the usual treatment for DCIS, which is what she did anyway. She’s trying to act like she eschewed all medical treatment, which is not even true.

Does she still smoke? If not, when did she give that up? She was smoking even when at school.

She gave up the smokes by 40.

Given all her sun exposure, the hard partying, heavy cocaine and alcohol use, she's lucky she only had stage 0 breast cancer.

In the late 80s/early 90s, she was famously "best friends" (FWB) with Michael Hutchence and unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kylie into a threesome with him. That got Kylie dumped for Helena.

The stupid cow burnt an Alaia original.

An Observer columnist's weekend rant about MacPherson includes the following :

[quote]Any day nobody remembers that you once talked about consuming the powdered horn of a species being hunted to extinction is a good day for a vegan health guru: in the week you want your health insights taken seriously pending the publication of a new memoir, it’s practically priceless.

[quote]Enterprises such as Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, a Kardashian’s Poosh and WelleCo can at least argue that proselytising drivel about self love and the ingestion of apparently unproven supplements is their line of work. An occasional controversy, like vaginal steaming, does little to shake consumer confidence in the world of “clinically studied” (apparently not proven) ingredients, where it’s normal to defer to a “medical medium” (Goop) or to remark (like Macpherson), “I also really look after my mitochondria”.

She sounds like a crank. As a celebrity however her every utterance is solid gold.