Kylie gives her most revealing interview since battling cancer

"When you are stripped of everything and you have to grow your eyelashes back, grow your hair back, it's just astonishing.

"It is hard to express what I have learnt from that, but a deep physiological and emotional shift has happened."

Miss Minogue admits that during her illness she had "shrunk to nothing" and at other times "ballooned", adding: "My body is not what it used to be but it is the body I am in."

When her cancer was diagnosed, the star was in Australia in the middle of her sell- out Showgirl tour.

She resumed the Australian tour in November 2006 and staged a New Year's Eve concert in London followed by a six night stint in January.

She said she thought her contract might be cancelled by the company launching her perfume, Coty, when it was revealed she had cancer.

"I really thought I might be dropped. And they said, 'We're here and we're not going anywhere'."

The interview comes as she prepares to release an album which she started recording when she was still unwell.

She said: "I had just taken my scarf off (the headscarf she wore to conceal her hair loss during cancer treatment) and wanted to reassure myself I could still do what I did before.

"So the first chance I got, I went into the studio for a week and went nuts."

In the interview Kylie describes sun block as her "beauty secret" adding: "Since my illness, so many people have commented on my skin. It's weird."

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