Fox News’ Kat Timpf diagnosed with breast cancer just hours before giving birth

Kat Timpf, a Fox News star, revealed that she had breast cancer just hours before giving birth to her first child.

The 36-year-old TV star, who worked on the air for the majority of her third trimester, recently exposed some of the harshest comments she had received about her growing baby bump. She revealed the birth news last week in a heartbreaking Instagram post this Tuesday.

Just 15 hours before she gave birth to her first child with her husband, Cameron Friscia, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “Last week, I became a mother. Just 15 hours before I went into labour, I was told I had breast cancer”, she explained. The doctors are optimistic that it hasn’t spread and have determined that it is stage zero.

Kat described the harrowing sequence of events that occurred on the day of her diagnosis, describing how she coped with the overwhelming news. She said, “I was already more than a week past my due date and completely focused on attempting to get the baby out.” “By the afternoon, I found myself juggling appointments, cracking jokes about how to get rid of the cancer, all while waddling around”.

The Fox News host described the chaotic day as “not chill” and claimed she was more than a week late when she gave birth. In the news about her health scare, she made jokes about her hectic day. She said, “I asked every question I could, including if I could get a copy of my tumor ultrasound to place on the refrigerator next to my baby’s ultrasound.”

Then, Kat made it known that she was having labor in the hospital as she rushed to the hospital to meet her baby boy. Additionally, she explained to her followers that doctors suggested she have a double mastectomy as soon as possible. “These next three months of maternity leave are going to look a lot different than I’d anticipated, and I’m still getting used to my new reality”, she said.

“I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early, I’m lucky to be my son’s mom. I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules – and not just because he might have saved my life”. Finding humor and hope in the toughest times was the toast the new mother gave as her announcement came to an end.

In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Kat famously worked, which produced cruel intrusive questions and a terrible baby bump. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on February 17, she reacted to the hateful remarks about her body. At the time, she wrote: “Hi everyone! I promise a doctor and I are both aware of each other’s concerns more than any random online stranger does about my health and the health of my own baby.

Although I’m sure most of it is well-intentioned, I don’t need to be bombarded with comments about how looking my belly this way or that way CLEARLY means I’ll need this or that procedure. Or how I shouldn’t be at work, or concerns about my ‘ amniotic fluid ‘ or any other wildly personal medical thing, “she added.

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Source: Mirror