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Another very emotionally heavy post about introspective pre-breast cancer surgery life found its way into the wee hours. The 35-year-old singer showed her fans an 11-week-old day-in-the-life bikini picture taken during a jet 48-hour trip to Los Angeles, revealing that these were the last bikini pictures in that house-and pre-surgical body.
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Poolside at what she calls “my favorite house I’ve ever lived in,” Jessie made a lightning remark. “I jumped in the pool,” she said still amazed that after nine hours, an hour of which was underwater, her makeup was still there. Mitch Peyer captured the moment perfectly-the golden hour, carefree spirit, and dry confidence all flowing through the lens.
Then it got really hard… They were not just other glam shots. They are that might-must-have-been moment before and after which Jessie needed to hold in memory. “The last pictures I ever took like this in my pre breast cancer surgery bikini body,” she wrote, followed by the crying emoji that just expressed how much weight this moment bore for her.
The comment section turned into a support group instantly. One of the fans said. “The scars we hold are medals of bravery,” to which another replied, “and survival.” Jessie must’ve hit home for anyone who was traveling a road similar to hers. Another said, “I had these sorts of photos done with my husband 18 years ago just before my mastectomy, those pics were not fit for Insta, ha.”
Brazilian fans flooded the comments for love messages, explaining her as “calmness, lightness, power.” Others, such as a user currently awaiting a breast ultrasound, are comforted by Jessie’s fairness. They wrote, “Waiting for a breast ultrasound now” and gave prayer-hand emojis that express hopefulness for Jessie’s journey.
The strangest thing is how Jessie framed the whole thing. Not in sadness but in gratitude: “So grateful for these photos, for this house and all its memories and my body then and now.” Celebrating the past, embracing the present must have been the reason one called her “a true inspirational woman.”
That post answered at least one small question: she sold her LA home, although she never told anyone why. A local fan assured her, “You’ll always have a home in LA,” and there is just too much love for this lady for geography to matter.
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Such is the case with Jessie J: She is fearless onstage, but this kind of vulnerability asks for another level of courage. What could have been a private moment for her went public to comfort anyone dwelling with these kinds of scars. These pictures portray a woman bidding goodbye to one chapter; whereas the caption? That is someone fully present in her new reality, scars and all.