Clea Shearer Continues To Share Her Breast Cancer Journey: “I Was So Desperate for Information”
We can’t all hire a home organizer, but there’s something about the idea of one that gives a feeling of reassurance—a pro who accepts you with non-judgment, a certain strength, and some loving guidance to live more peacefully.
Clea Shearer is known as that presence thanks to her roles as The Home Edit co-founder, New York Times bestselling author, Netflix star and host of ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. But since her 2022 breast cancer diagnosis, Shearer’s been simultaneously seeking strength, as well as sharing it. On a recent two-part episode of Extreme, she and her team worked with a local family navigating leukemia to create a wellness center at Arizona’s Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center for patients and their loved ones who would otherwise need to travel long distances to return home, which often isn’t easy immediately following a treatment.
When we spoke with Shearer earlier in February, just two weeks prior she’d undergone what had been an unanticipated procedure to address a complication that had risen from a surgery she’d had right before the holidays. Too many Americans know: life doesn’t pause for cancer. The mom and entrepreneur told us treatment and recovery have given her reasons to establish some gentle self-grace, as well as her own new priorities and routines, which she shares here.
One of those is taking Verzenio, a daily pill “to treat adults with HR+, HER2– breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body,” its maker, Eli Lilly, explains. In some breast cancer patients, Verzenio may “help control how fast cells grow.”
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