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Teddi Mellencamp was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 41, took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off a pink scar on her back with a bandage right next to it.
“Melanoma awareness update,” Mellencamp began in her caption. “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. I got the call this morning: Stage 2 melanoma.”
Mellencamp explained that she’ll go to the oncologist next week to have it “cut out and come up with a game plan on next steps,” adding that that’s “pending some additional testing and biopsies of other spots nearby.”
“Moral of this story: if a doctor says, ‘come in every 3 months’ please go in every 3 months,” she told her followers. “I so badly wanted to blow this off. ‘What could happen in 3 months?’ I thought. Apparently a lot.”
The former Bravolebrity acknowledged that she didn’t always take the best care of her skin and didn’t start applying sunscreen or getting her moles checked until she 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,” she concluded her post.
Mellencamp also took to her Instagram Stories to share more snaps of the affected areas. In one Story, she posted a side-by-side photo of two different spots that she also got biopsied on Tuesday.
The “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast host urged her one million followers to go to the doctor and get their skin checked.
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The “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast host urged her one million followers to go to the doctor and get their skin checked.
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The “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast host urged her one million followers to go to the doctor and get their skin checked.
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