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Clea Shearer — co-founder of The Home Edit, along with best friend Joanna Teplin — was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022
Since then, she's undergone chemo and radiation treatment and 14 surgeries
Ahead of her new memoir, Cancer is Complicated and Other Unexpected Lessons I've Learned , Shearer shares her story with PEOPLE
Clea Shearer is in her Nashville home, leaning back on an ivory bouclé sofa in a living room fragrant with pale green hydrangeas and white roses. She’s smiling, her skin is glowing, and her nails are impeccably manicured.
It’s a flawless scene — fitting for a woman who made a name as the co-founder of the organizing empire (and celeb favorite) The Home Edit. But the picture doesn’t tell the whole story.
Tucked behind her back, hidden in the fo