Katie Thurston, who was a contestant on The Bachelor and starred on The Bachelorette, revealed she has been recognized with breast most cancers.
On Saturday, Thurston took to her Instagram to announce the information. “Life replace: I’ve breast most cancers. Yesterday I noticed all of the {couples} publish their Valentines Day celebrations. I felt envious if I’m being sincere,” she captioned the publish. “Jeff took me to Hawaii and after, we had been going to journey the world earlier than planting roots collectively in NYC lastly. However as a substitute, my Vday was spent coordinating a spot to stay as I’ve to return to LA for extra testing and therapy.”
She went on to clarify how she spent the vacation scheduling well being appointments and met along with her staff to determine a chemo plan. Thurston mentioned she’s skilled a number of feelings since she came upon, together with “denial,” however what’s helped her was reaching out to different ladies who’ve skilled what she’s going by way of.
“One factor I did early on was search different tales like mine. Different younger ladies with breast most cancers. Invasive ductal carcinoma. Mastectomy. Being pregnant after breast most cancers. All of their tales helped. So I intend to be the identical for others,” she wrote. “That is day one in every of sharing and goes to be an extended one. This primary step of acceptance of my actuality was the toughest. However I’m able to struggle this.”
She concluded by thanking her fiancé and comic Jeff Arcuri for his assist: “I don’t know the way I’d do that with out you.”
On one in every of her Instagram Tales, additionally posted on Saturday, Thurston mentioned she is “ready on studying what stage” she’s in and is planning to get one other biopsy to seek out out extra info. She additionally shared that there isn’t any historical past of breast most cancers in her household.
Thurston first appeared on Matt James season of The Bachelor in 2021 however was eradicated in week six. Later that yr, she led The Bachelorette and accepted Blake Moynes’ proposal. Nevertheless, they broke up a couple of months after the finale aired. She and Arcuri received engaged final yr.