Teddi Mellencamp He spoke frankly about why he decides to use a wig a few days in the middle of his ongoing cancer battle.
Mellencamp, 43, tok Instagram on Tuesday, May 6, to open on the emotionally charged decision, publishing a photo of herself wearing a wig made with long blonde locks.
“The daily decision of wedge versus without a wig”, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Student wrote. “Days of crying, I tend to choose the wig.”
Mellencamp, who suffered from melanoma inside and outside since 2022 before revealing in February that he has melanoma in stage 4 after metastasis to his lungs and brain, his current state was touched. “The treatment ups and downs for brain tumors and lung in stadium 4 are quite extreme,” he added.
The reality TV star used the social media platform to encourage fans to keep their own health controls attentive. “Please go to your annual checks,” Mellencamp urged in the publication. “It is the month of awareness of melanoma. It is not a better time than now reserve and remind a friend or loved one.”
The singer and songwriter’s daughter John Mellencamp recently spoke with Us Weekly About how he is facing in the midst of his trip against cancer. After learning in March that four additional tumors were growing in the brain, Mellencamp said he promised to find a new balanced normality. “I am listening to my body, but also keeping myself active and doing things that I love because I do too much. [around]I get quite sad, “he said User In a cover story published on April 2. “In the days I feel low, I can really get emotional, and if I am open with people in my life, then I have a moment rather resting. When I try to pretend that I am fine and resting, it is difficult for me.”
Mellencamp, who shares two daughters, Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, and a son, Cruz, 10, with separate husband Edwin ArroyaveHe hugged his brain surgery scars while walking along the red carpet last week.
Going out to the unforgettable night, benefiting the Women’s Cancer Research Fund in Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on April 28, Mellencamp opted against a wig for the occasion. She marked the glamor with a custom black suit, customizing her look with silver chain necklaces, siblings of hope and heels with chrome tip.
Only a few hours before the event, Mellencamp went to his scars through Instagram, revealing that he cried when he first saw them. “76 days have passed since I went to the unbearable headaches and quickly discovered that I had multiple tumors in stage 4, the size of the plums” in my brain and lungs, “Shey that day.” Melanoma had metastasis there and the leg there for “6 months to a year” and we had no idea. “
The publication continued: “When I first looked at this image, the scars of my head and my arm, I cried. Then, I felt a warmth that hastened through my body and felt so much peace. Peace of the incredible support system and friends of the ease of love and all sizes. Peace to know that my story could help someone save their lives.”