Influencer Bridget Bahl, 41, diagnosed with breast cancer: ‘Scary road ahead’

Bridget Bahl is opening up about being diagnosed with breast cancer.

The New York- and Dallas-based fashion and lifestyle influencer, who is married to plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Chiodo, announced in an emotional video Sept. 22 on Instagram that she received the diagnosis "a few weeks ago" while undergoing her sixth retrieval for IVF.

"I was maybe two or three days into the shots, and I had the routine bloodwork, sonogram with my doctor, and I told him I had felt something in my breast," said Bahl, 41, adding that her fertility specialist insisted they stop the process so Bahl could get imaging done on her breast.

"He got me in in like a day or two and I was completely convinced that it was fine, it was just a cyst and it was from the hormones. I really did not feel worried about it. I felt great," she continued.

After Bahl underwent a mammogram and a sonogram, a physician showed her that the images revealed a lump in her breast .

"She looked me in the eye and she said, 'Bridget, I have been doing this for a long time, and I do not like what I see,'" Bahl went on.

The physician encouraged Bahl to undergo a biopsy the same day.

"The next day she called me and unfortunately confirmed that I do have breast cancer and that it has spread to a lymph node," said Bahl.

Though Bahl said she knows that she will "be OK," she also acknowledged being anxious about the "scary road ahead."

"I don't want to do it, but I believe through the grace of God that I can do it," she said.

Bahl described the last few weeks of her life as "nothing short of a nightmare. ... But I have felt God many times throughout it."

Bahl's treatment plan includes chemotherapy, surgery and possibly radiation, she said.

"The good news is that the type I have, it is very responsive to a targeted treatment, which gives us so much hope," she shared. "That's the update for now. Don't worry. Just please pray."

Bahl concluded her video by telling followers that she and her husband are currently going forward with plans for a final IVF retrieval.

"We didn't start at the most ideal time. There's not enough time to wait to do another round, so I'm just asking for prayers," she said. "I would just love to get another embryo. It would mean so much to me if you guys could pray about it."

During her video, Bahl also urged her followers to schedule an appointment with a doctor to be "checked out" if something in their breasts feels unusual. "Do not wait," she said.

Bahl wrote in the caption of her video that she was "incredibly scared of what is to come" but that "God makes beauty from ashes."

"I am not looking forward to the next few months but i know it will be a chapter in my life and not the whole book. while it's hard to see it right now, i believe that God will transform this struggle into something beautiful," she wrote.