Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s mother, reveals in her biography that she was diagnosed with breast cancer | People

Perhaps the name of Tina Knowles (Galveston, USA, 71 years old) is unknown to many. But for others it is a relevant figure. Although a career and a name have been worked in its own right as a fashion designer, it is worldwide known for being Beyoncé’s mother. It has always been a fundamental support for her daughter, going out to defend her at the most complicated moments, such as when she responded sharp to criticism for the skin color of the music star. But now the protagonist is her. On the occasion of the publication of your memoir, Matriarch (Matriarch, in Spanish), for sale since Tuesday, April 22, it has revealed that it was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2024, but that is already free of the disease. A process that decided to pass in intimacy, accompanied by his family, and that has now decided to make public in his biography and in the interviews he is giving to promote it.

As he has revealed, doctors detected breast cancer in phase 1 in the left bosom. Although it was in an initial stage, time detection is essential to proceed with the corresponding treatment. The diagnosis came shortly after she and Beyoncé launched their hair care line, Cécred. Meanwhile, the designer was finishing writing the book that has just seen the light.

A diagnosis that could have been worse, he acknowledges, since he was delaying the appointment to make a routine mammogram. “I forgot that I did not go to do the test two years before what I believed. The pandemic arrived, they called me and they canceled the appointment. They told me: ‘We will call you when we do the tests again.’ People. Not noticeing seemingly visible or notable symptoms, he forgot the corresponding test. “It is important not to neglect mammograms,” he claimed during the talk with the publication while advising all women to make them as a form of prevention.

“I hesitated to share that experience because I am very reserved. But I decided to share it because I think many lessons for other women. People.

In another conversation with Los Angeles Times, The matriarch also speaks of the relevance of making her illness public: “I thought it was very important for people to understand how traumatic it is something like that and that doctors must be extremely sensitive about it.”

Once he understood the importance of the diagnosis, he wanted to reveal all the details. Knowles states in the aforementioned interview with People that did not detect breast cancer genes and that his family had no history of the disease. After the diagnosis, he underwent surgery to remove the tumor last August, in which they also proceeded to reduce his chest. “I am great. Without cancer and with the immense luck that God would allow me to detect it in time,” he assures the magazine.

Although the operation was a success, he contracted a serious infection that forced him to cancel all the events he had scheduled and was the interpreter of Halo the one that insisted to take advantage of resting and recovering. “I want to give people hope. What scares me now is not to make the most of every day that I have left in this life,” he defends in the conversation with the American environment.

In the Book of Memoirs, Knowles wanted to share how his daughters faced this news. “He took it well, keeping positive. He could feel his accelerated mind, concentrating on this as a task to approach precisely,” he explains about Beyoncé’s reaction. “Mom, we will take care of this,” were the words used by her little daughter, also the artist Solange.

Although the diagnosis he received was negative, the positive news of his recovery serves, he says, so that other women are aware of the importance of routine reviews to detect these diseases on time. Knowles is already recovered point for the start of his daughter’s new tour, Cowboy Carterwhich will begin on April 28 in Los Angeles (California). The last concert will be July 26 in Las Vegas.

It was last October when it was known that he was going to publish his memoir. Why now? “I wanted to leave something to my grandchildren to know me already their ancestors. Los Angeles Times.