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Amy Dowden joined Strictly as a qualified dancer in 2017
“Accept as true with your instincts, accept as true with your intestine and have in mind you already know you higher than someone else.”
Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden has been reflecting on her reviews since being recognized with breast most cancers two years in the past.
The 34-year-old from Caerphilly published she had breast most cancers in Might 2023 after discovering a lump in April, the day earlier than her honeymoon with fellow dancer Ben Jones.
On Friday, the BBC showed she could be returning for Strictly’s 2025 collection.
Amy wanted a mastectomy and underwent chemotherapy and used to be not able to compete with a celeb spouse on Strictly in 2023.
In February 2024, Dowden introduced she had “no proof of illness” following exams.
“Two years in the past I discovered my lump and my intestine intuition instructed me it wasn’t excellent,” the dancer stated in a publish on Instagram on Saturday.
“I used to be in Blackpool about to do a complete day within the ballroom with all my scholars.
“That morning within the bathe is when my center sunk. I used to be additionally flying off on my long-awaited honeymoon the next day to come.
“I knew in my intestine it wasn’t proper. All of the time I used to be away I used to be checking it each day and googling when Ben wasn’t having a look.
“I have in mind someday biking again to our villa and in reality pondering this could be my closing vacation. Your thoughts spirals so briefly.
“Such a lot has modified since then however I’m so pleased with how a ways I have come.”
Amy Dowden and fellow dancer Carlos Gu had been acting their very own excursion, Reborn, in the United Kingdom
She made a go back to Strictly in 2024 however needed to pull out halfway throughout the Twentieth-anniversary collection because of an damage.
The dancer shared a photograph of herself taken on Friday – hours after her 2025 Strictly go back used to be showed – and some other from when she used to be present process remedy, appearing “two very other variations of me”.
“I continuously dreamed about getting the previous ‘me’ again and you already know what, this 12 months has been the entirety and so a lot more, two back-to-back dancing excursions – my frame feeling more potent and more fit than ever,” she stated.
“What I’ve indisputably learnt alongside the way in which isn’t to match myself to others. I’ve learnt to be sort to myself.
“However what I in point of fact wish to say and to get throughout is all the time accept as true with your intestine.
“Accept as true with your instincts, accept as true with your intestine and have in mind you already know you higher than someone else.”
