Teddi Mellencamp Reveals Doctors Found More Brain Tumors

justjared.com:

Teddi Mellencamp’s doctors have made a devastating discovery. The 43-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum discovered she has four additional small brain tumors during an emergency MRI, she confirmed. “I’m fighting for my life,” she told Us Weekly in an interview, adding: “but also for my family’s life and all the people I love.” Keep reading to find out more… She has three kids with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave: daughters Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, and son Cruz, 10.

She is also a stepmom to his daughter Isabella, 16. She is undergoing radiation and immunotherapy treatments. “I thought I was going to feel like how I felt after my neck lift,” she said with a laugh. “My reaction is always a headache, and I found out that’s good news because it means that the immunotherapy or the radiation is killing your cancer.” She also said she has stopped using her famed “moms always come back” catchphrase with her family. “I have not said that line to them since I’ve been back [from the hospital],” she shared. “They all know that I’m fighting the hardest I possibly can, but I haven’t said [it] because I don’t want to lie to them.

And I don’t know.” Teddi said she is “lucky” while recalling the moment her son made her feel better about the pixie haircut she got due to her tumor surgeries. “Ugh, I’m so over it already,” she said of her short hair. “But Cruz made it a little better because he said, ‘Mom, we can get all the same haircuts.’” “When I do too much laying [around], I get pretty sad,” she said. “On the days I’m feeling low, I can get really emotional, and if I’m open with the people in my life, then I have an easier time resting.