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Reality TV personality Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has revealed that she has been diagnosed with stage one cervical cancer.
Former MTV star Jersey Shore shared the news in a TikTok video on Friday, explaining that a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.
Between two medical appointments, Politico spoke in the car, expressing complex emotions.
“Obviously this isn’t the news I wanted, but it’s not the worst news either. It’s just that they found out early, thank God,” she said.
She took this opportunity to encourage her followers to have regular Pap smears, which can detect abnormal cells in the cervix before they become cancerous.
She added that she expects a hysterectomy will be required after a positron emission tomography (PET) scan, which will determine if the cancer has spread further.
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi attends the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Los Angeles ( Getty Images )
“I’m 38 years old this year, and I’ve had abnormal Pap smears for three or four years now. Look at me now,” she said.
“I didn’t postpone it because I didn’t want to, because I was injured, or because I was afraid. I did it. The fact is, the cancer was there, but it was in stage one and it was curable.”
She pointed out, “2026 did not go the way I wanted.”
But she added that the situation could be worse.
Polizzi, 38, rose to fame with his debut on Jersey Shore in 2009, and starred in six seasons as well as subsequent spin-offs such as Snooki and JWoww and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation .
She still lives in New Jersey with her husband of 11 years and their three children.
According to Cancer Research UK, a diagnosis of stage I cervical cancer means that the cancer is located inside the cervix and has not yet spread to nearby tissues or other organs.
The main treatment methods are surgery, chemotherapy, and combined radiotherapy.