Sneak Peek - REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NJ's Amber Marchese Visits THE REAL Today
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 17, 2014
New Jersey Housewife AMBER MARCHESE visits "The Real" for a special episode acknowledging Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Amber talks about her very personal struggle with breast cancer, and why she feels it is important to share her story. Amber also dishes on rumors surrounding her RHONJ cast members in a fun game of "Dish or Dine!"
Watch Amber Marchese Share Her Breast Cancer Survival Story:http://thereal.com/videos/0-j15ytr4v/
Watch Amber Marchese Play a Game of Dine or Dish:
CELEBRITY TRANSCRIPT WITH AMBER MARCHESE:
Adrienne Bailon: You've been very open and honest about, you know, being a breast cancer survivor. What made you want to come out and share your story?
Amber Marchese: I really felt that this was an excellent platform to tell my story; that cancer doesn't have any bias, doesn't care if you're old, young. You know, it could hit anytime, any place... you know. So I just felt that, you know, I want to tell my story. I was 31 years old and I had two babies and here I am thinking I'm just mom trying to raise my little ones and... You know, it just hit me like a ton of bricks with the diagnosis.
Amber Marchese: I really felt that this was an excellent platform to tell my story; that cancer doesn't have any bias, doesn't care if you're old, young. You know, it could hit anytime, any place... you know. So I just felt that, you know, I want to tell my story. I was 31 years old and I had two babies and here I am thinking I'm just mom trying to raise my little ones and... You know, it just hit me like a ton of bricks with the diagnosis.
Amber Marchese: You know when you go through everything... I had a double mastectomy, I had a year and a half of chemotherapy. I mean... I have huge scars. My areolae aren't even mine, I have no sensation, they're skin grafts. I have no sensation whatsoever. I lost my hair, my eyebrows, my eyelashes. You know, like... you don't feel pretty and I just wanted women to know that although you do go through this, there is light at the end of the tunnel and you could still be beautiful.
Tamera Mowry-Housley: What would you say got you through it?
Amber Marchese: Definitely my husband. He was there from the beginning to my last treatment, every surgery, every chemo treatment, everything. My little ones were so young. They were six months and a year and a half, almost two. I was actually breastfeeding when I found the lumps. There was a couple of them and I turned to my husband and he said, "You gotta get it checked out." Like I overreact on everything but when he said, "Get it checked out." I was like, "Okay, I gotta get it checked out. Like I have to do what I have to do." And the last chemo treatment, I was so excited. I didn't need help anymore. I could go home and just get on the ground and play with my kids. It was just the best thing.
On her least favorite housewife...
Amber Marchese: I would say Teresa (Aprea)
Loni Love: And why?
Amber Marchese: Personality conflicts... she needs to "shush" sometimes.
On whether or not Rino really slept with Teresa's (Aprea) mom?
Amber Marchese: No! It's not true.
Loni Love: Were you there?
Amber Marchese: No, I was not there. This happened apparently years ago.
On dropping Melissa's name to get on RHOJ...
Jeannie Mai: Melissa said that you got on the show because you dropped her name.
Amber Marchese: She actually said that?
Jeannie Mai: Yes she did! Keep it 100 or you're going to have to eat... some sliced cow's tongue.
Amber Marchese: No! It's not true.
Jeannie Mai: It's not? So how did the producers find you?
Amber Marchese: Um... Well it's because we knew each other, they actually came to me prior to even knowing that I did know her and then when I told them that I did know her, it was like a match made in heaven.
On Melissa being a stripper...
Amber Marchese: No, she was not a stripper. She was a bartender at the strip club and she was not ever a stripper.
GIRL CHAT: Keeping It "Real" About Breast Cancer... Tamera opens up about a personal scare she had with breast cancer and joins Loni as she goes for a routine mammogram. Loni shares her mammogram experience and encourages women over 40 to get an annual examination. The ladies also discuss how to conduct a self-exam and the importance of early detection.
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