{"id":658097,"date":"2026-10-27T01:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658097\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:02:17","slug":"teddi-mellencamp-says-brain-surgery-left-her-struggling-to-write-and-see-i-dont-want-to-keep-feeling-sorry-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658097\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddi Mellencamp Says Brain Surgery Left Her Struggling to Write and See: \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Keep Feeling Sorry for Myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp said her brain surgeries and treatment side effects have changed her health goals<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mellencamp is rebuilding her fitness routine while receiving ongoing immunotherapy for stage 4 cancer<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After initial frustration about not remembering her treadmill password, she was able to log on to complete her first jog in two years<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Teddi Mellencamp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/teddi-mellencamp-arroyave\/\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Teddi Mellencamp<\/a> shared that she struggles to write and see after undergoing brain surgery for stage 4 cancer. But she said, she doesn&#8217;t want to &#8220;keep feeling sorry for myself&#8221; as she works to reclaim her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna try to be the old Teddi, but I&#8217;m gonna try to be the new and improved Teddi,&#8221; the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Real Housewives of Beverly Hills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/real-housewives-stars-with-podcasts\/\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/a> alum, 45, shared in a series of emotional videos posted to her <a data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram stories;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/teddimellencamp\/?hl=en\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram stories<\/a> on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is how I wake up every morning. That&#8217;s my hand shaking,&#8221; Mellencamp said over visibly unsteady video, where she showed her pill organizer. &#8220;I have a little bit of this shake, and I have not been making my bed. All of this is going to change today. I mean, not the hand shaking part, but I&#8217;m going to make my bed, have my medication. And I&#8217;ve already got workout clothes on because I&#8217;m going to try to start to change my life today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Teddi Mellencamp showed her daily medication and revealed she struggles with hand tremorsCredit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"270\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/3264617860a61ef11c0c7c1a072f8810.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teddi Mellencamp showed her daily medication and revealed she struggles with hand tremors<br \/>Credit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mellencamp was first diagnosed with stage 2 <a data-ylk=\"slk:melanoma;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/teddi-mellencamp-having-surgery-to-remove-melanoma\/\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">melanoma<\/a>, the deadliest form of skin cancer, in 2022. After surgeries, Mellencamp shared that it had metastasized to her <a data-ylk=\"slk:brain and lungs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/teddi-mellencamp-reveals-3-more-tumors-were-found-on-her-brain-and-2-more-in-her-lungs-11692753\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">brain and lungs<\/a> in April 2025. She underwent <a data-ylk=\"slk:brain surgery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/teddi-mellencamp-shows-brain-surgery-scars-hair-help-11962896\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">brain surgery<\/a> to remove the four tumors and has been undergoing regular immunotherapy treatments since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fitness enthusiast and founder of the lifestyle coaching service All In wrote that she was &#8220;trusting that moving my body consistently will help both my mind and my body heal.&#8221; That&#8217;s why she was &#8220;on the treadmill for the first time in over a year.&#8221; Then she shared the &#8220;next hurdle&#8221;: She couldn&#8217;t recall her login and password for her treadmill screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not good with numbers. I can&#8217;t write. It&#8217;s hard for me to see,&#8221; Mellencamp shared, her voice trembling. &#8220;All post-having-my-brain surgeries. That being said, I don&#8217;t want to keep feeling sorry for myself because that is what&#8217;s happening, and then I quit. So, I just want to feel okay being back in my skin again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Teddi Mellencamp shared that she's embarking on a new wellness journeyCredit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/c5270d47563b0a6afa58961af99e12b4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teddi Mellencamp shared that she&#8217;s embarking on a new wellness journey<br \/>Credit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mellencamp said she is embarking on a new journey &#8220;knowing I&#8217;m a completely different person&#8221; rather than focusing on weighing 38 lbs. more than before she got sick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her journey, she said, is &#8220;not about the number on the scale. It&#8217;s about the fact that I&#8217;ve been on steroids, immunotherapy, I&#8217;ve had brain surgeries, and this is a choice I am making to feel better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued filming despite tearing up, pausing to say, &#8220;I cringe when I see people holding their cameras while they&#8217;re crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She clarified: &#8220;This is more gratitude, the amount of clients that have already messaged me and said like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go,&#8217; and just that feeling of support around you, telling you that you can do it, that you&#8217;re worth it. And that it might take time and it may look different and it may feel different, is huge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Teddi Mellencamp shared the changes to her appearance amid cancer treatmentCredit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"278\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/b9994a5caf78b8e33a353f713f80f4a1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teddi Mellencamp shared the changes to her appearance amid cancer treatment<br \/>Credit: Teddi Mellencamp\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy I have my team. Let&#8217;s hope I can get past day one, guys,&#8221; Mellencamp shared. In an update, she shared that her All In coaching team helped her recover her login and password, and she completed her &#8220;first jog in 2 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if I only make it 10 minutes,&#8221; she wrote, adding that she&#8217;s focused on &#8220;progress over perfection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She then shared a side-by-side comparison of herself in similar hot pink workout bra and pants, sharing that the difference between the photos was that the left picture was pre-cancer and treatment, and the right was after two years of treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t care about becoming the old me again bc she wasn&#8217;t happy,&#8221; Mellencamp wrote. &#8220;But [I] am excited to see where my new journey will take me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/teddi-mellencamp-says-she-can-t-write-struggles-to-see-after-brain-surgery-12194989\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp said her brain surgeries and treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-658097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}