Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has revealed she’s been diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The reality star took to TikTok on Friday when she opened up about the news. In the post, Polizzi explained that she was attending a post-op appointment following a cone biopsy.
“My results came back for my cone biopsy, and it came back stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma,” she said. “Obviously not the news that I was hoping for, but also not the worst news just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking God!”
Mayo Clinic defines adenocarcinoma as “a type of cervical cancer begins in the column-shaped gland cells that line the cervical canal.” In her post, Polizzi encouraged viewers to stay on top of routine check-ups that could potentially result in prevention and early detection.
“That’s why I’m literally telling you guys to get your pap smears done. I’m 38 years old, I’ve been struggling with abnormal pap smears for three or four years now, and now look at me,” she said. “And instead of just putting it off because I didn’t want to go and it hurt and I was scared, no, I just went and did it. And it was there, cancer is in there. But it’s stage 1 and it’s curable.”
Polizzi, better known to Jersey Shore viewers as Snooki, joined the MTV reality series in its inaugural season in 2009. There, she starred alongside a group of friends who vacationed on the Shore in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The show went onto become a pop cultural phenomenon, running from 2009-2012. Polizzi and the Jersey Shore crew subsequently starred in the revival Jersey Shore: Family Vacation for a whopping eight seasons.
“So get your appointments done, bitches! I’m telling you. Once you go to stage 2, then I think you have to do the chemo,” Polizzi continued. “Nobody wants to do that! It’s scary. So get your appointments done.”
The Jersey Shore star’s Friday post comes after she revealed in a Jan. 20 TikTok that her doctor “found cancerous cells on the top of my cervix” after undergoing a colposcopy and biopsy.
And in her Friday post, she shared what her plans moving forward amid the diagnosis look like.
“I’m gonna probably get the hysterectomy, because the oncologist said you can either do chemo, radiation or get the hysterectomy,” she said. “Obviously, I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy. I’ll still keep my ovaries, which is a good sign. But yeah, gotta get the cervix and uterus out. And then possibly lymph nodes. I guess it all depends on the PET scan.”
“So 2026 is not panning out how I wanted it to. But also, it could be worse,” Polizzi added.