Polizzi, who has children Lorenzo, 13, Giovanna, 11, and Angelo, 6, with husband Jionni LaValle, revealed she first had a colposcopy, which “took a chunk out of [her] cervix”, followed by a cone biopsy.
While cancer was found, Polizzi was relieved to discover it had not spread beyond the cervix.
While doctors have scheduled a PET scan to check for signs of cancer elsewhere in her body, Polizzi is looking ahead to treatment for her cervical cancer and is considering a hysterectomy, a surgical procedure to remove the uterus.
She said: “After that, I’m going to probably get the hysterectomy, because the oncologist said you can either do chemo, radiation or the hysterectomy. Obviously, I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy. I’ll still keep my ovaries, which is a good sign, but the hysterectomy, got to get the cervix in, the uterus out and then possibly lymph nodes, because it can [spread there]. So I guess it all depends on the PET scan.”
She is also determined to look on the bright side and told her fans: “Could be very much worse.”