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‘I felt offended on behalf of my breasts’ – Jean Hannah Edelstein

When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own

12 April 2025

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Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship Jean Hannah Edelstein

Phoenix, pp.112, 12

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a British-American journalist and the author of a 2018 memoir entitled This Really Isn’t About You, which was about her dating life, the death of her father and her discovery that she had Lynch syndrome – which predisposes her to some cancers, as it had her dad.

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