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Beloved ‘Gutfeld!’ Co-Host Stuns Fans With Health Update During Return To Show
A beloved co-host of Fox News’ popular program “Gutfeld!” is going public about her perilous health struggle in pregnancy, one that she’s mostly kept from the public until now.
Kat Timpf, who co-hosts with Greg Gutfeld for the 10 p.m. weeknight news show, revealed that she is back to her former self after battling breast cancer while carrying her first child to term. The 36-year-old broke the news Monday night after returning from her maternity leave.
“I am boob-free. I am cancer-free as well,” she joked.
The decision to seek a mastectomy was easy, she laughed, adding she didn’t want to “risk my life for some 32As.”
Doctors told Timpf that she may never know if her pregnancy was the catalyst for her cancer, but after having her baby boy, the Fox News personality declared the struggle “so worth it.”
Fans took to social media to cheer her honesty about a disease that affects one in eight women, according to the American Cancer Society.
“Kat, welcome back! You were missed!” one wrote on Instagram in response to a clip from the show.
“So happy to see you!!!!” said another Instagram user, who added heart emojis. “You look beautiful!”
“Been praying for her. Love seeing her back on the show,” a third added.
Timpf had been quiet on social media since taking leave from “Gutfeld!” in March. At the time, she revealed she had undergone a double mastectomy and was receiving continued cancer treatment during pregnancy.
In what turned out to be a miraculous development, doctors informed Timpf that she was cancer-free one day before having her child.
She shared a post-labor photograph of her holding her infant son, but even that heartfelt moment was one Timpf pumped for laughs.
“Post-op! They’re honestly not much smaller than they were before I got pregnant,” she wrote about a breast size reduction as part of her mastectomy.
The Fox News host has been especially candid about her uncharted path to first-time motherhood. She last shared a note in February, titled “An unconventional birth announcement,” about the whirlwind of emotions she experienced after learning both about her pregnancy and her cancer.
“Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.
Timpf assured her supporters that doctors were confident the cancer was in its earliest stages and would not spread.
“I woke up more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out,” she continued, according to the Daily Mail.
“By the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out.” Not long after, Timpf described “crawling around the floor of my apartment in spontaneous labor.”
Timpf is married to Cameron Friscia. The couple welcomed their first son in February but have not publicly shared his name.
