Teddi Mellencamp is opening up her diagnosis.
On Tuesday (October 11), the 41-year-old former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star revealed that she has been diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma, months after a mole removed from her back.
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“Melanoma awareness update. Despite my anxiety, I listened to the doctors and went in for my 3-month skin check last week since my previous melanoma. They said I had another abnormal spot near my last one so they did a biopsy,” Teddi wrote on Instagram along with a photo of a scar on her back and a bandage closely next to it.
Teddi continued, “I got the call this morning: Stage 2 melanoma. Now, next Wednesday I go to an oncologist to have it cut out and come up with a game plan on next steps. Of course, this is all pending some additional testing and biopsies of other spots nearby that were taken today.”
“Moral of this story: if a doctor says, ‘come in every 3 months’ please go in every 3 months. I so badly wanted to blow this off. ‘What could happen in 3 months?’ I thought. Apparently a lot,” Teddi concluded. “I continue to share this journey because I was a 90s teen, putting baby oil and iodine on my skin to tan it. Never wearing sunscreen or getting my moles checked until I was 40 years old. This has been such a wakeup call for me, and I hope to all of you, to love and protect the skin you’re in.”
Teddi‘s announcement comes after this fellow reality star revealed that she had a precancerous melanoma removed from her face.