Anastacia has declared “cancer gave the wrong girl cancer” while opening up about her battle against the disease.
The 57-year-old underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 after being diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time.
In an interview on the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast, the I’m Outta Love star said: “Cancer gave the wrong girl cancer!”
She added that she also discovered the cancer by accident, after going into hospital for a breast reduction.
Anastacia said: “When I found out I had cancer it was not in the typical way. I went in for a breast reduction, then I found out.”
However, after finding out she had a long battle ahead of her, Anastacia said that she decided to use humour to help her deal with the diagnosis.
She admitted: “I can always deliver anger with humour. I call my t******, ‘toxic t******,’, you know? They're my ta-tas. It's a good way to try and make something negative positive."
Elsewhere in the interview, Anastacia revealed how she came about her iconic tinted glasses, after deciding to get the colour in her glasses in a bid to deflect unwanted attention from the opposite sex.
She explained: “I decided to put a tint in my glasses primarily because when I wore glasses and they were uniquely shaped, they didn't have a tint, and guys, more than I want to care for would always call me a sexy librarian.”
She also said that she experienced a lot of rejection when she started out in the music industry - mainly because people didn’t know what category to put her in.
Anastacia added: “I didn’t fit in to any of what was happening in music then. Celine [Dion], Mariah [Carey], Janet [Jackson].
“I was definitely not in the sexy category of being that. I didn’t fit that mould and also I didn’t sound the mold.
“When I wrote Not That Kind to me that was normal. But when I played that for people they were like, ‘Well what genre is this? What are you? Where would you fit?’
“And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t know I had to figure that out to be a singer.
“I didn’t know it had to be this ‘business’ and I didn’t have that sense. I just had an artist sense.”
