Milica Dugalic: “I finished chemo, now I wait for surgery”
The singer posted a photo without her hair and named the next step for the first time: chemotherapy is behind her, and surgery is due within one to two months.
Singer Milica Dugalic posted a photo of herself without her hair on Instagram on August 1, with a three word caption: “A will to live.” It is the first post that shows where she stands in her treatment for breast cancer, an illness she has been fighting for more than a year.
The picture was taken in the middle of that treatment. Her hair fell out completely during chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy itself, she says, is now over.
“I finished chemotherapy, I am waiting for surgery,” the singer told reporters.
She expects the operation within the next one to two months. This is the first time she has named the next step publicly, even though she has been speaking about her illness for months.
What she said about her hair
Hair was the first thing she was asked about once she appeared in public after her therapy sessions. Her answer closed the subject before it could turn into one.
“Hair grows and it will grow back. A head will not grow back, what matters is keeping a healthy head and a healthy spirit”
The line started circulating alongside the photo, and the Instagram post picked up a second life in the comments.
Diet, supplements and nettle juice
Alongside the medical protocol, Milica Dugalic changed her daily routine. She described it in specifics rather than generalities.
“I changed my diet completely, I take natural supplements, I press nettle, everything natural,” she said in an interview with Informer.
What she changed comes down to a few things:
- a fully reworked diet
- herbal preparations and supplements
- nettle juice, which she presses herself
None of it replaces her treatment. It runs alongside it while she waits for a surgery date.
Why is the new album part of this story?
Because the singer names it as the reason to hold on. The record is in progress, and she turned it into a personal deadline with the hardest sentence of the whole interview.
“I cannot leave this world without finishing the new album”
Work, in other words, has not stopped. She recently performed at the party marking the end of the tenth season of Elita, in the middle of her treatment, so the audience watching her that night had no idea which stage of therapy she was in.
An illness she never hid
The August 1 post is not the first time she has shown what treatment looks like. She had previously shared photos from the Institute for Oncology, but back then she spoke only about fighting, not about stages. What is different now is the sequence.
Here is what she has said and shown so far:
- more than a year of treatment for breast cancer
- earlier photos from the Institute for Oncology, with no detail about therapy
- an appearance at the Elita 10 closing party, during treatment
- the August 1 photo without her hair, captioned “A will to live”
- chemotherapy finished, surgery expected within one to two months
Dugalic has one daughter and grandchildren. Her audience has followed the rest through her own posts, since she never left the hospital part of the story for others to retell.
She spoke about how she is holding up in short, first person lines, in an interview given after her therapy sessions ended.
“I hope I will beat this. I am completely positive and solid as a rock. Every morning when I wake up I say, thank you God for one more day”
The next date to watch is the surgery. Until then, by her own account, nothing changes: therapy, the new diet and the studio.
