Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy

Season 1, Episode 1 TV-14 CC SD

Having finished journalism school and landed her dream job, the last thing 27-year-old Geralyn (Sarah Chalke) expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. She decides to go public with her disease despite fears about backlash at work, and her bold choices in treatment are irreverent and uplifting. When her breast is under construction and her hair is falling out, her skirts get shorter. She goes to work every day and gets promoted. She has sex with her husband (Jay Harrington) with her bandages on. Geralyn recovers from her mastectomy and chemo and has a baby in the same hospital where she was treated for cancer. What could have been a huge negative for this young cancer survivor became the impetus to examine her own burgeoning womanhood.