Nicole Eggert, once a child star who transformed into a Baywatch sensation alongside Pamela Anderson, was recently photographed for the first time after announcing her mastectomy this past Friday.

The 53-year-old, who transitioned from pageant queen to TV star, appeared notably slender and delicate while visiting a grocery store in Burbank, California.

She was out and about just one day after she revealed that she had had a mastectomy in a post shared with her 181,000 Instagram followers.

Eggert was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2023, two months after she started suffering from ‘terrible pain’ in her left breast.

The actress rocked a punk rock–inspired look with a black T-shirt featuring the cover of the Sex Pistols’ 1977 single God Save The Queen.

She wore it tucked into olive-green Bermuda shorts, and she stayed cool with tan flip flops with thick leather straps.

Eggert, who sported a shaved head while she was undergoing chemotherapy treatments earlier in her cancer journey, now boasted a stylish platinum blond pixie cut. 

She successfully pulled off a nerd-chic look with large brown plastic-frame glasses, and she wore thick gold hoop earrings.

Eggert had slimmed down considerably earlier this year compared to last year, when she was still in the throes of her cancer treatments, but she looked particularly thin following her surgery. 

The actress had previously had a single mastectomy in October of last year, which she revealed six days later on Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ podcast.

She had wanted a double mastectomy at that time, but her doctor advised her to ‘do the single’ instead, because it would keep her ‘immune system up higher than if we take both,’ and would thus enable her to get ‘back into treatment’ faster.

This past Thursday, Eggert revealed that she has had another mastectomy, as well as a reconstruction by Orange County plastic surgeon Dr. Kyle Song.

She broke the news to her fans alongside a selfie that showed her posing in a sports bra and a pair of panties, presumably in the days after the operation.

‘Had a mastectomy with reconstruction on Thursday. How was ur weekend? #breastcancer #breastcancerawarness #feelyourselfup,’ she wrote. 

She began experiencing ‘terrible pain’ in her left breast in October 2023, after having gained 25lbs over the course of just three months.

At first she attributed her symptoms to menopause, but when she performed a self-check and felt a lump, she ‘immediately’ called her doctor.

One mammogram and three biopsies later, she finally received her official diagnosis that December: stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.

Nicole observed that ‘the problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done,’ via People.

In February 2024, she disclosed that more cancer had been discovered in her lymph nodes and expressed regret that she did not check her breasts herself earlier.

‘The self-exams, I’m telling you, I kick myself. That’s the one thing I should have been doing,’ she said during an interview on Inside Edition.

Nicole recalled that when she received her diagnosis, her ‘heart dropped, I lost all hearing, everything sank. It’s named invasive cribriform carcinoma. It’s very rare.’ 

She noted that any anomalies in her breasts were more difficult to find because of tissue from the implants she got at the age of 19. 

Nicole, who went on Botched a decade ago to obtain a breast reduction, described her original implants as a ‘huge mistake’ in her February interview.

‘If I didn’t have them and I had my smaller, natural breasts, I am sure I would have felt it much sooner,’ the California native theorized.

During her interview last February, Nicole divulged that her ‘biggest fear’ was to no longer be there for her daughters Dilyn, 27, and Keegan, 14.

Nicole offered more details about the progress of her cancer battle when she appeared on the Amy and T.J. podcast last October.

‘I did eight months of treatment. I just had a mastectomy six days ago and I will go back on treatment,’ the mother-of-two explained.

She said her doctor told her: ‘I know you want the double but we also need to get you back into treatment. So let’s do the single — it will keep your immune system up higher than if we take both. You’ll be able to get into treatment quicker, we have less chance of infection and a quicker healing time.’

Nicole told T.J. and Amy that she had the option to request a double mastectomy, but that her doctor advised her: ‘You can do both, and then we find out later it traveled, and we didn’t get to it in time and it’s growing. So you don’t want to be hasty. You want to be careful. You have to go with your gut.’