‘See? There’s my bladder,” Tracey Emin says, lifting up her top to reveal a small plastic pouch attached to her abdomen, then rummaging around in her handbag for a larger plastic bag to attach to it via a long tube. “I’m doing this in front of you because you’re a journalist. I want to show you how it is,” she says. “I’ve never hidden anything, have I?”
Emin has lived without a bladder since 2020, when she was diagnosed with squamous cell bladder cancer and told she had six months to live without major surgery. She has been cancer free since 2021 but will forever live with a stoma and a urostomy bag. If she didn’t use the larger collection bag, no one would know
