While nursing her daughter Isabella, the Hollyoaks actress, who portrayed teacher Becca Dean from 2001 to 2007, felt a lump in her breast.
“It was a total shock” when Bastian, 42, learned the news in June, she told magazine. “I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten… and then suddenly I remember,” she continued. I’m still working on comprehending it.
The actress, her husband David O’Mahony, an actor, writer, and director, and their two young daughters, Isla, age four, and Izzy, age nineteen months, relocated to West Cork, Ireland, earlier this year.
According to Bastian, the magazine, she started to worry when her daughter began feeding it.
I was night-weaning Izzy, so it felt like I had mastitis, which is breast swelling that occurs during nursing. We believed that I most likely had a clogged duct. My doctor prescribed antibiotics and advised me to visit a breast clinic if the condition didn’t improve within a few days.
