Fox News anchor Kat Timpf had the unfortunate experience of getting a breast cancer report just a few hours before giving birth to her first child. The “Gutfeld!” The panelist and the host of this Fox Nation show called “Sincerely, Kat” went on X on Tuesday to introduce her baby boy while making it clear that her cancer was detected at an early stage.
“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 36-year-old wrote. “Now, before you worry, my doctor says it’s Stage 0 and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread. Or, as I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer.”
Kat Timpf’s Cancer Early Detection and Unexpected Timing
Carcinoma in situ is the earliest stage a cancer can be classified, and it is classified as stage 0 cancer; this means that the cancerous cells are only present in a specific part of the body, such as the breast milk ducts, and they have not spread anymore. Kat Timpf said that she was diagnosed when she was screened by a doctor during a normal checkup on the same day that she arrived at the hospital to give birth to her child in 2021. Nevertheless, she remained quite humorous about it all.
Where There Was Nothing But Darkness
Kat Timpf even cracked jokes about her ordeal and on how she wanted to notify the hospital staff of the arrival of the baby.
“Should I go with ‘Mom and baby are doing well, except maybe for mom’s cancer, and then maybe the baby after breastfeeding is stunted by her double mastectomy,’ and then shut off my phone for a week?” she quipped.
She was subjected to have a double mastectomy “as soon as possible,” which meant her maternity leave was quite different from that which she expected. Still, Kat Timpf is keeping herself in high spirits, surrounded as she is by nothing but positive emotions.
“I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom,” she said. “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 post on a hopeful note: “Here’s to resilience, to miracles in the midst of chaos, and to finding humor and hope even on the toughest days.”
