Fox News personality Kat Timpf shared a deeply emotional message on Tuesday, revealing that she was diagnosed with breast cancer just one day before giving birth to her first child. In a post on X, the 36-year-old journalist explained that doctors found the malignant cancer while she was discussing preparations for delivery. Fortunately, the diagnosis was made at Stage 0, the earliest stage, when cancer is least likely to have spread.
The very next day, she went into labor. Timpf reflected on how her delivery plans were intertwined with discussions about both childbirth and the necessary chemotherapy treatment. “Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Timpf wrote, according to the Daily Caller. “As I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer.”
The day was already full of concern, she added, saying she went into the hospital “more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out.” Timpf noted further: “By the middle of the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out.”
Now that she has delivered a healthy baby boy, doctors are recommending that Kat Timpf undergo a double mastectomy as soon as possible. Despite the daunting diagnosis, she is facing this challenging journey with strength and resilience. “The good news? People who work at hospitals make excellent audiences for dark humor — and, as someone whose first book was about the power of jokes to get through traumatic situations, there was really no better place for me to be. Just minutes after my boy was born, I was talking with the nurses about what a birth announcement in my situation might look like,” she wrote.
“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 added. While new motherhood has turned out differently than she had envisioned, Timpf concluded by saying she’s focusing on “celebrating everything I can.”