Teddi Mellencamp is displaying off her new, sentimental ink a month after giving an “thrilling” replace on her ongoing battle with stage 4 most cancers.
On Thursday, the previous “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” star shared an image of her again on Instagram, flaunting a model new tattoo down the middle.
“Are you able to guess what my new tat says?” the 43-year-old wrote in her caption. “We did household tat day yesterday and naturally that is what I picked.”
In a since-deleted Instagram Story, a close-up picture of the ink clearly learn, “Life is brief even in its longest days” — a candy lyric from her dad John Mellencamp’s 2008 tune “Longest Days.”
“For my dad @johnmellencamp,” Teddi added over the snap.
Whereas the physique artwork goes vertically down her backbone, it additionally covers a portion of her scar from when her medical doctors “lower out” a big space of her shoulder that was plagued with melanoma and “changed it with a flap of pores and skin” from her decrease again in January 2024.
A “household tat day” means Teddi wasn’t the one one who acquired contemporary ink yesterday.
As seen on an Instagram Story from tattoo artist @wyldwess, the “Jack & Diane” crooner, 73, additionally bought a brand new tattoo on his wrist, although it’s unclear if Mellencamp matched his daughter.
She’s been leaning not simply on household but additionally buddies throughout this time, inking extra light-hearted matching tats with BFF Kyle Richards earlier this 12 months.
The mother of three was identified with pores and skin most cancers final 12 months, however, in February she introduced to her Instagram followers that medical doctors found “a number of tumors” on her mind as effectively.
After going by surgical procedures and immunotherapy remedy, nonetheless, issues are wanting up.
On Instagram final month, she shared, “I simply completed with all of my scans and my tumors have considerably shrunk, which medical doctors imagine implies that this [treatment] all will work and that I can be again to myself and feeling good!”
