Overview

• In a new newsletter, the model says she stepped back from Instagram because she was depressed and did not want to pretend she was fine.
• Her last Instagram post was on June 10, with only a brief appearance in August to support the “Ovaries. Talk about them” campaign.
• She describes a June shutdown marked by crying and struggling to get out of bed, noting that her older daughter’s move to New York deepened her unease.
• With encouragement from her partner Alessandro, she resumed sessions with a psycho‑oncologist, restarted therapy and estrogen patches, and has begun to improve.
• Balti reports she has been in remission for months after stage‑3 ovarian cancer treated with surgery and chemotherapy, and she emphasizes that depression after cancer is real and not a moral failure.