Nicole Eggert Says She’s ‘Making an attempt to Keep Optimistic’ Amid Breast Most cancers (Unique)

Nicole Eggert is taking her well being at some point at a time amid her breast most cancers prognosis.

The actress, who performed Summer time Quinn on Baywatch, revealed that she had been recognized with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast most cancers in early December 2023. Now, she tells PEOPLE that she’s “simply attempting to remain optimistic daily.”

“I am on a wild curler coaster experience. There’s ups and downs, and I simply attempt to get up daily feeling actually optimistic and able to deal with no matter is coming at me, to be trustworthy with you,” she says whereas discussing her newest undertaking After Baywatch: Second within the Solar, a docuseries that premieres Aug. 28 on Hulu.

The docuseries, which Eggert helped produce, revists the solid of the hit ’90s TV phenomenon, which at its peak, netted billions of viewers across the globe. Within the four-part undertaking, the actors mirror on the highs and the lows of their time on the seashores of southern California.

“I hope that individuals give the actors, and all of the folks concerned, truthfully, the respect that they actually deserve. I feel all people type of glossed over it and was like, ‘Oh, it is simply one other fairly face within the crimson go well with,'” Eggert says. “I’ve heard ‘disposable’ used rather a lot. I are likely to disagree with that. I hope that individuals can see them for the people that [we] are behind the face as a result of it is a group of nice folks.”

Engaged on the docuseries for the final 5 years has additionally proved to be very cathartic for the previous actress, particularly as she’s grappled along with her breast most cancers prognosis over the past eight months.

“Having a younger daughter and having this undertaking has been an awesome motivation for me to not simply sit and take into consideration my well being and my wellbeing. It is giving me objective,” says Eggert, who’s a mother to Keegan, 13, in addition to grownup daughter Dilyn, 25. “It is maintaining me pushed daily. I feel the timing of life is at all times for a motive. It has been an awesome distraction, and my daughters stored me on my toes.”

After her prognosis in December 2023, Eggert spoke to PEOPLE about how her well being has impacted her kids.

“[Dilyn’s] an grownup, however I’ve a 12-year-old at dwelling the place I am the one caregiver. I’ve no household. I’ve nothing,” she mentioned, reflecting on “the horror” on Keegan’s face when she advised her about her prognosis. “It instantly made me notice, there’s simply no succumbing to this. That is one thing I’ve to get via. That is one thing that I’ve to beat. She wants me greater than something and anyone.”

On July 26, Eggert posted a video to Instagram sharing a optimistic replace along with her followers.

“I simply left assembly with my surgeons, and the phrases they used have been I had a ‘full full response,'” she defined.

Eggert continued: “My physique absolutely responded to the chemo. There is not any detectable most cancers in that space, and I’ve the inexperienced gentle to go forward and schedule surgical procedure. This might be a mastectomy and reconstruction, and this might be a complete journey by itself, nevertheless it labored. It labored. It labored.”

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Eggert’s historical past with Baywatch dates again to 1992, when she solid on the present at simply 18 years previous. She remained on the present for 2 seasons.

Reflecting on her time on the sequence, Eggert says now: “I give up Baywatch. [But] working away from issues doesn’t make them disappear. As a teenager, I type of ran from it,” she admits, “however I additionally haven’t any regrets on the identical time. I do not consider in them.”

After Baywatch: Second within the Solar premieres Aug. 28 on Hulu.