Loose Women icon Coleen Nolan has spoken about the impact of losing two of her sisters to cancer on her approach to life and how this affected her own cancer diagnosis

Coleen Nolan has spoken about a change she has made in her life(Image: ITV)

TV star Coleen Nolan has spoken about the changes she has made in recent years after tragically losing two of her sisters to cancer.

Loose Women panellist Coleen, 60, is the youngest of the famous Nolan sisters who are best known for the 1979 musical hit ‘I’m in the Mood for Dancing’.

Sadly, the family has been hit by tragedy after the deaths of Linda Nolan at the start of this year at the age of just 65, two decades on from her original breast cancer diagnosis in 2005. Meanwhile, Bernie Nolan died in 2013 at the age of 52, after a long battle with breast cancer.

Furthermore, Anne Nolan has been diagnosed with cancer a number of time. Speaking on the British Skin Foundation’s health podcast, Skin, Unfiltered, Loose Women star Coleen spoke about her skin cancer diagnosis.

As well as discussing why she originally chose to hide it, she also spoke about the impact of losing loved ones on her life and a decision she had decided to make.

Coleen has lost two sisters to cancer (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

The decision in question concerned how she saw life. She told the presenters: “I think without being, if there’s any plus side to losing people you love in your life, and I’ve lost a lot in the last few years, my two sisters.

“I think if you can’t realise how short life can be or how unpredictable and just I kind of now live in the moment rather than worry about the future.

“Because now if I worry about the future I go, ‘I think my sisters would love to be here worrying about that and I don’t know if I’m going to be here so let’s just live in the moment and that puts a smile on my face.”

Coleen Nolan(Image: Getty)

On the same podcast, Coleen also discussed why she initially chose to conceal her diagnosis before going public.

In 2023, Coleen admitted on ITV that she had received a diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma on her shoulder. She also said that a melanoma had been found on her face.

On why she hadn’t initially told her family, she said: “Well, do you know what, I didn’t tell them, actually, initially, because I didn’t want to worry them. We were going through so much with my sister, Linda, at the time, and my elder sister as well.

“And then we were sitting there with the family one day, and out of the blue (I think it was my son, my oldest son), all of a sudden went, ‘Well, it’s like Mum now with her skin cancer.’

“And my whole family just went, ‘What?’ And I was just like, ‘Whoa, wait a minute. It’s really fine, you know.’ And they were like, ‘Why didn’t you tell us?’ And I was just very much like, ‘There wasn’t really anything to tell.’”