Teddi Mellencamp’s medical doctors found she has 4 extra mind tumors throughout an emergency MRI.

“I’m preventing for my life,” the “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 43, informed Us Weekly in an interview revealed Wednesday, “but in addition for my household’s life and all of the folks I like.”

Mellencamp shares three youngsters along with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave: daughters Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, and son Cruz, 10. She can also be a stepmom to Arroyave’s daughter Isabella, 16.

As she continues her battle towards her prognosis, the previous Bravolebrity stated she has stopped utilizing her famed “mothers at all times come again” catchphrase along with her household.

“I’ve not stated that line to them since I’ve been again [from the hospital],” she shared. “All of them know that I’m preventing the toughest I probably can, however I haven’t stated [it] as a result of I don’t need to misinform them. And I don’t know.”

Regardless of her declining vitality ranges because of radiation and immunotherapy remedies, Mellencamp has maintained a humorousness about her most cancers and ongoing divorce.

“I assumed I used to be going to really feel like how I felt after my neck raise,” she stated with fun whereas reflecting on her signs from therapy. “My response is at all times a headache, and I came upon that’s excellent news as a result of it signifies that the immunotherapy or the radiation is killing your most cancers.”

The fact star described herself as “fortunate” whereas recalling the candy second her son made her really feel higher concerning the pixie haircut she obtained because of her tumor surgical procedures.

“Ugh, I’m so over it already,” she stated of her brief hair. “However Cruz made it slightly higher as a result of he stated, ‘Mother, we are able to get all the identical haircuts.’”

Mellencamp stated she is “listening to [her] physique,” “staying energetic” and persevering with to do issues she loves.

“After I do an excessive amount of laying [around], I get fairly unhappy,” she stated. “On the times I’m feeling low, I can get actually emotional, and if I’m open with the folks in my life, then I’ve a neater time resting. When I attempt to fake I’m OK and resting, it’s laborious for me.”

The daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp revealed in February that she had undergone surgical procedure to have 4 mind tumors eliminated. They went undetected for at the least six months earlier than she began experiencing migraines and found the growths.

The next month, she shared that medical doctors discovered 5 extra tumors in her physique — three in her mind and two in her lungs.

Teddi informed Us Weekly that most cancers is “positively the toughest factor” she has ever needed to face in her life.

“However now it feels much less laborious,” she shared. “After I was within the ICU, it was extremely tough as a result of I had no reminiscence. In the future, I noticed it was my daughter’s birthday, and I couldn’t be there for it; it was actually unhappy. It’s nonetheless unhappy after I can’t be there for my youngsters the best way I’d usually be.”

The “Two Ts in a Pod” co-host has been coping along with her battle by joking concerning the illness as an alternative of being in denial.

“Everyone needs me to be tremendous optimistic on a regular basis. One among my coping mechanisms is being sarcastic,” she stated. “I’d reasonably joke about it and have the very best final result than be fully in denial and have my coronary heart damaged.”

As for her divorce from Arroyave, the duo have paused the case so the entrepreneur may help care for his estranged spouse.

“I’m actually fortunate that Edwin, who I used to be in the course of a divorce from, we put every thing on maintain,” she stated. “[It] wasn’t actually the time to be preventing over emails. He’s been extraordinarily sort and serving to with the children. That’s made issues quite a bit simpler.”

The pair are at the moment dwelling collectively, although they sleep in separate bedrooms.

“I’m within the major, and he’s in one of many visitor rooms,” she stated. “It’s enjoyable. It’s all of the issues that I liked about our marriage however with out all the issues.”

Teddi, who filed to divorce Arroyave in November 2024, has had a downhill battle along with her well being since she was recognized with stage 2 melanoma in October 2022.