FormerDance Momsstar Kelly Hyland is opening up about her battle with breast cancer.
“I booked myself a mammogram,” the 53-year-old reality alum toldE!
Newsin a new interview.

‘Dance Moms’ stars Paige Hyland, Kelly Hyland, and Brooke Hyland.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
“I had just had one done eight months prior and the results came back clean.
However, this new mammogram and sonogram did not.
It came back showing a mass.”

Kelly Hyland with the young stars of ‘Dance Moms’.Barbara Nitke / Lifetime TV / Courtesy: Everett
A biopsy confirmed that within eight months Hyland had developed “a malignant mass.
[It] was a very hard conversation for all of us.
“I hated that I had to watch another important person in my life go through it.
The strongest person I know, Paige wrote over an image of her mother on Instagram.
I love you more.
Brooke captioned her own post, My strong mama.
Love you so much, Gisoni-Ziegler wrote.
You got this, and we got you!
You are so unbelievably being so strong!
Dance Momstar Kira Girad wrote, You got this, a sentiment echoed by her daughter, Kalani Hilliker.
Forever have your back.
News that accepting help has been the toughest part of the process.