'How I Met Your Mother' Star Cobie Smulders Shares About Accepting Her Body & Cancer Scar

“How I Met Your Mother” star Cobie Smulders shares the story of her battle against ovarian cancer. At the young age of 25 she encounters the disease and then started her attempts of finding a cure for the terrible affliction which had struck her.

According to Entertainment Online, she says that she started practicing meditation, yoga, she visited energy healers. She even went to a cleansing retreat where she did not eat for eight days and experienced hunger induced hallucinations.

After defeating the terrible disease Cobie Smulders mad a photo session for “Women’s Health” magazine and even ended up on the cover picture of the issue. Fox News shares her response to inquiries about the topless session. She claims that this was a way for her to re-discover herself and gain final acceptance of the cancer and the scars it had left behind.

Staying in front of the camera lenses, trying to look not sexy, but confident was a process of
self-discovery and acceptance that helped her move on. In the same issue of “Women’s Health” magazine, she has shared an interview about her own battle with cancer. Since then, she has spoken to a lot of women, who have come to her with stories similar to hers.

Self shares information on why exactly is ovarian cancer so difficult to diagnose and to be treated in earlier stages of development. Ovaries are located in the abdominal cavity, where there is a lot of free space on which the organs can expand, before they become noticeable. Usually the condition is noticed when the expansion of the tumor has reached other internal organs like the liver, intestine or bladder.

The symptoms of the disease are also quite common, where Cobie Smulders herself was complaining from low energy, fatigue, and constant pressure in her abdomen which can be caused by a large variety of conditions.

Regular examination and care for the body can help discover this and other deadly diseases in early development.