Fox News’ Kat Timpf Announces Cancer Diagnosis One Week After Giving Birth

A heartbreaking message of family and resilience was shared by Fox News personality Kat Timpf on Tuesday when she told her social media followers she had been diagnosed with breast cancer less than a day before giving birth to her first child.

Writing on X, the 36-year-old explained that doctors uncovered the malignant cancer while discussing her delivery preparations. Thankfully, she said, the discovery was made at Stage 0, when cancer is least likely to have spread to other parts or organs in the body.

The following day, she went into labor.

For Timpf, her delivery date included both birth planning and treatment discussions for chemotherapy.

“Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Timpf wrote, according to the Daily Caller. “As I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer.”

The day was already fraught with concern, she went on, saying she went into the hospital “more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out.”

“By the middle of the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out,” she added, a jarring experience, to say the least.

Now that she is past delivery and mother to a healthy baby son, doctors are recommending that Timpf undergo a double mastectomy as soon as feasible. Still, she’s taking the scary episode in stride.

“The good news? People who work at hospitals make excellent audiences for dark humor — and, as someone whose first book was about the power of jokes to get through traumatic situations, there was really no better place for me to be. Just minutes after my boy was born, I was talking with the nurses about what a birth announcement in my situation might look like,” she wrote.

“Should I go with ‘Mom and baby are doing well, except maybe for mom’s cancer, and then maybe the baby after breastfeeding is stunted by her double mastectomy,’ and then shut off my phone for a week?”

New motherhood might look a lot different than what she had planned, but Timpf concluded by saying that she is taking time to “celebrate everything I can.”

“I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom. I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules — and not just because he might have saved my life,” she added.

Timpf has been married to veteran Army ranger Cameron Friscia since 2021 and occasionally jokes on Fox about being a “half-veteran” because all duties and titles are split in half in a successful marriage. She is a frequent participant on “Gutfeld!” and some of the network’s most successful afternoon and evening programs, where she is best known for her bubbly personality, and sharp-tongued libertarian takes.

The couple have not yet shared a photo of their newest family member.