Why The Bold Type addressed Jane's double mastectomy at the beginning of the midseason premiere

Vulture

The Season 4 midseason finale ended with Katie Stevens' character choosing to have a double mastectomy after wrestling with the likelihood of developing breast cancer, testing positive for the BRCA mutation, and finding a lump. “We were thinking we could open close on Jane’s breasts and the girls holding them as an ‘introducing the new boobs to the girls’ kind of thing,” showrunner showrunner Wendy Straker Hauser tells Vulture. “As we got closer to it, we realized we wanted to also have an emotional, more reflective montage of the process of healing and some of the more accurate, painful moments to give some real weight to what Jane had been through before we did that lighter, three-girl celebratory moment.”

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