Kat Timpf, a prominent figure on Fox News, has shared her deeply personal and difficult experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer merely hours before the birth of her baby.
The broadcaster, 36, soldiered on throughout most of her third trimester despite a wave of harsh remarks from some viewers regarding her growing baby bump.
In a moving Instagram post on Tuesday, she shared the news of her newborn son’s arrival last week to her followers. However, a mere 15 hours before commencing labour with her husband Cameron Friscia’s child, Timpf was informed she had breast cancer, the Mirror reports.
In her emotional post, she wrote: “Last week, I became a mother. Just 15 hours before I went into labour, I was told I had breast cancer. The doctors have diagnosed it as stage zero and are optimistic that it hasn’t spread.”
Timpf recounted the hectic nature of the day she found out about her diagnosis, and how she managed to navigate through the storm by wielding a sense of humour.
She commented: “I was already more than a week past my due date and completely focused on trying everything to get the baby out.”
Amidst the madness of multiple appointments and attempts to shake off the cancer were bouts of laughter at the absurdity of the situation.
She said: “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 star said she was more than a week past due when she gave birth and recalled the chaotic day as “not chill.”
Even in the face of her health crisis, Timpf kept a comedic edge, musing over whether she could display her tumour ultrasound alongside her baby’s on the refrigerator, demonstrating her resilience during a time of both celebration and challenge.
Kat revealed she went into labour in the middle of the night before rushing to the hospital to give birth. also told her followers that doctors recommended she get a double mastectomy as soon as possible.
She said: “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.”
Feeling fortunate for the early cancer detection, Kat reflected on the joy of becoming a mother: “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.”
She ended her message by raising a glass to “finding humor and hope on the toughest days.”
Kat impressively worked through the final days of her pregnancy which led to cruel intrusive questions and horrible about her baby bump.
On February 17, she hit back at hateful comments about her body in a post on X. At the time, she wrote: “Hi everyone! I am under the close care of a doctor, and I promise that both of us know and care far more about my health and the health of my own baby than any random online stranger does from just seeing me on TV.
“Although I’m sure much of it is well-intentioned, I don’t need to be bombarded with comments about how my belly looking this way or that way CLEARLY means I will be needing 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.”