‘Baywatch’ alum Nicole Eggert, 52, shaves head amid battle with ‘very rare’ form of breast cancer

“Sending you a big hug,” Garth added.

The “Charles in Charge” actress announced in early January that she had been diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma after believing she was going through menopause but experiencing “terrible pain” in her left breast.

“It really was throbbing and hurting,” she explained. “I immediately went to my general practitioner, and she told me I had to immediately go get it looked at.”

Eggert immediately feared succumbing to the disease because it would mean leaving her daughters, Dilyn, 26, and Keegan, 12, behind.

“[Dilyn’s] an adult, but I have a 12-year-old at home where I’m the only caregiver. I have no family. I have nothing,” she noted.

But weeks after sharing her diagnosis, Eggert revealed doctors found more cancer in her lymph nodes.

“The self-exams, I’m telling you, I kick myself [for not doing them frequently],” she told “Inside Edition.” “That’s the one thing I should have been doing.”

Eggert — whose mother battled colon cancer and father had skin cancer — also blamed the breast implants she got when she was 18 to look better on screen for “Baywatch.”

“If I didn’t have them and I had my smaller, natural breasts, I am sure I would have felt it much sooner,” she said.

One of Eggert’s pals launched a GoFundMe to help assist with the actress’ medical bills, and it has raised nearly $48,000. Kyle Richards, who “goes “way back” with Eggert, donated $1,000 to the fundraiser.