Hallmark star Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe has shared details about her ongoing health struggle.

The 44-year-old actress revealed she has stage three cancer in a personal essay for PEOPLE published on Friday.

“Like many women, I have always had a love-hate relationship with my body. Long before it gave me my two beautiful children, I was a bikini model in magazines like Maxim, and, early in my acting career, I spent many years playing roles that were hyper-focused on how I looked,” Lowe wrote. “And I felt that pressure, constantly checking my body, adjusting, second-guessing whether I was ‘enough.’ It was a quiet battle, fought daily.”

Lowe, who shares a nine-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son with her husband, Miko Tomasevich, said things changed after she joined Hallmark’s “Signed, Se

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