\u201cDid this photo shoot a couple of days before starting chemo. Diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer, tumour was aggressive, started chemo two weeks later.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at these photos now is like looking at an old friend \u2026 I haven\u2019t left home a lot this year but when I have, I\u2019ve hidden my cancer pretty well with false lashes, drawn-on eyebrows and cold capping (a technology that preserved about half my hair volume).”<\/p>\n
She said the post would come as a surprise to some.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t even had a chance to tell many people. There are friends and family who will find out through this post and I know they will understand \u2026”<\/p>\n
Stewart said in the post that treatment had led to early menopause and a mastectomy at 41. \u201cBut I got a new boob and I LOVE IT.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still doing chemo, along with other treatment. The journey feels long but I feel lucky and grateful. This is a reminder to get checked fam, get your mammogram if you\u2019re eligible and don\u2019t put it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her post has been met with an outpouring of support from friends, family, colleagues and supporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching you traverse this with such grace has been bloody amazing. I adore you Indira … and your beautiful boobs!\u201d wrote 1News at Six presenter Melissa Stokes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSending so much love Indira, I\u2019m so sorry you\u2019re going through this x,\u201d wrote Coast radio host and broadcaster Toni Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are truly amazing. Lots of love xxx,\u201d wrote TVNZ broadcaster Laura Tupou.<\/p>\n
Editor-at-Large Shayne Currie is one of New Zealand\u2019s most experienced senior journalists and media leaders. He has held executive and senior editorial roles at NZME including Managing Editor, NZ Herald Editor and Herald on Sunday Editor and has a small shareholding in NZME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDid this photo shoot a couple of days before starting chemo. Diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer, tumour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,682,2831,9516,2534,2535,797,11947,42,297396,2936,38924,5844,1073,43,12860,6934,1529,40,38,41,39,6445,6754,102],"class_list":["post-603662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-being","tag-breast","tag-broadcaster","tag-cancer","tag-chemotherapy","tag-diagnosed","tag-grade","tag-headlines","tag-indira","tag-insider","tag-investigative","tag-journalist","tag-media","tag-news","tag-revealed","tag-stewart","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tvnz","tag-undergoing","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}