Teddi Mellencamp Cries Tears of Joy After Latest Skin Check Will Not Be Biopsied for the First Time in 2 Years: ‘Such a Good Feeling’

Mar. 15, 2025

Teddi Mellencamp Dec. 16, 2024 Instagram.Photo:Teddi Mellencamp/instagram (2)

Teddi Mellencamp/instagram (2)

Teddi Mellencampis sharing good news amid years of removing 17 different spots of melanoma.

TheReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum, 43, revealed in a Dec. 16Instagramvideo that she does not need to undergo another biopsy after receiving several skin checks over the past two years. Mellencamp was diagnosed withstage 2 melanoma in 2022and has since had 17 of thecancerous growths removed.

Mellencamp said that she and her doctor looked at each other and said, “‘What?’ ”

“Oh my gosh, such a good feeling,” she said before noting she would go back in March for another 3-month skin check.

“This should be a reminder to all of you guys, please, please, book your skin checks, book your mammograms, book your OBGYN appointments, book your eye doctor appointments,” she concluded the video.

AsVeryWell Healthexplains,melanomais “not as common as other forms of skin cancer, [but] it is the most dangerous. It can spread quickly to other organs if not detected early enough.”

When it’s found early, “surgery is the recommended treatment.” Immunotherapy is another treatment for that type of skin cancer, but as Mellencampshared in December 2023, “Immunotherapy did not work, it was not successful.”

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Teddi Mellencamp/instagram

Mellencamp also confessed in her post’s caption that it is “never easy” when she goes to the doctor for her continual three-month skin checks.

“The anxiety always takes over; the thought of another biopsy, another surgery, another addition to the scar on my back," she said. “And I always end up crying. But today the tears were those of joy. Because for the first time, there wasn’t anything abnormal, nothing that needed an extra look. And I am grateful.”

The mother of three remarked how grateful she is to her doctors, nurses, family, friends, and followers for their “continual support.”

“As long as you’re here, I have a reason to keep advocating for myself and for others,” she wrote.

TheTwo T’s in a Podco-host also added a photo of her healed scars. “Scar update. What incredible doctors and nurses I have had throughout these surgeries. Over 1000 stiches later. Get your skin checked please.”

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Mellencamp’s good news follows herJuly announcementthat she had to undergo yet another procedure and have “2 more [spots] removed.”

Mellencamp — who had a melanoma spot surgically removedfor the 15th timein April — had shared that she was nervous before going in for the skin check that ultimately diagnosed this latest melanoma.

She said at the time that she was grateful that they caught these “within 90 days and [in] earlier stages.”

source: people.com