Fox News star Kat Timpf has confirmed she will be undergoing a double mastectomy days after she revealed her shocking breast cancer diagnosis.
In an unexpected Instagram post shared on Tuesday, the 36-year-old host announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer just hours before giving birth to her first child.
“Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” the post read. “My doctors say it’s stage zero and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread.”
The startling news was followed by an outpouring of concerned comments, many of which included unsolicited medical advice.
Some, Timpf said, had recommended that a double mastectomy wasn’t the best course of action as some of their family members only needed a lumpectomy to treat the cancer.
Others, she explained, had claimed themselves to be a nurse before declaring that a double mastectomy for stage-zero cancer sounds “extreme.”
“I just want to say, trust me, there’s no one for whom that seems more extreme than me,” Timpf said.