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Jazmine Sullivan pens heartwarming message revealing her mom’s cancer diagnosis

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Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Whitaker Peace & Development InitiativeJazmine Sullivan did the big chop, shaving off her hair to support her mother Pam‘s battle with cancer.

The R&B singer shared the news on Instagram on Mother’s Day, along with a few childhood photos and snapshots and video footage of Sullivan and her mother both shaving their hair.  Sullivan also detailed the moment her family was derailed by the news of her mom’s illness.

“Late October 2019 our world was flipped upside down when you were diagnosed with IBC (inflammatory breast cancer),” Sullivan wrote in the Instagram post.

“Our days were no longer filled with convos of you telling me to hurry up and finish my project, but of chemo treatments and hospital visits. [It] got real, fast.”

Inflammatory breast cancer is more common among black women and tends to be more aggressive, growing at a more rapid rate, according to the American Cancer Society.

Sullivan went on to congratulate her mother for handling things so well, gushing that Pam’s “grace, wisdom, strength, and empathy for others, while you’re going through the toughest time in your life, has been the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed.”

“You mommy, are the prettiest picture, the best lyrics and sweetest melody I’ve ever heard,” she added. “And I’m so proud of u and proud to be ur daughter.”

She concluded the post by declaring that both she and her mother will make it through this tough time — with determination and God’s help — which will lead to “a testimony of complete healing and victory.”

After three studio albums, Sullivan took a five-year hiatus from the music industry, and revealed in interviews and on Instagram last year that she’d been in an abusive relationship.

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