Teddi Mellencamp Was ‘Medically Cleared’ to Get Tattoo amid Stage 4 Most cancers Prognosis

• Teddi Mellencamp has gotten one other tattoo, quickly after she and her former costar Kyle Richards acquired matching tattoos of a small match with a flame
• Erika Jayne shared on the Diamonds within the Tough Podcast that Mellencamp needed to be “medically cleared” to get the tattoo
• Mellencamp has stage 4 most cancers and has had a number of tumors faraway from her physique

Teddi Mellencamp needed to get permission from her docs earlier than getting her current tattoos — together with the matching one she acquired with Kyle Richards.

On the Thursday, April 17, episode of the Diamonds within the Tough podcast with Mellencamp, 43, and Erika Jayne, 53, the pair opened up about Mellencamp’s current expertise of getting a brand-new tattoo.

“So, at all times, I’ve wished this tattoo, and I by no means acquired it,” mentioned Mellencamp, who’s battling melanoma that metastasized to her lungs and mind.

“Earlier than everyone has a full psychological break, she was allowed. She was medically cleared to get the tattoo, so do not get loopy,” Jayne chimed in.

“My total household and I’ve talked in any respect these holidays about desirous to get this little knife,” Mellencamp shared.

“… I need to, every time I am irritated, simply have the ability to go…” she mentioned, presumably displaying off the tattoo of a knife on her forearm. “After which anybody that is aware of me is aware of we’re carried out with this dialog. We’re not we’re not going any additional.”

“Plus,” she added, “…We had a tune that went with it, and we would go, ‘I feel I like this little knife,'” she joked, enjoying off of the lyrics of “Little Life” by singer Cordelia and calling it “essentially the most obnoxious tune ever.”

“Effectively, know what? We have now taken it for the little knife,” Mellencamp joked.

This new tattoo comes only one week after she acquired matching tattoos together with her former Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills castmate Richards, 56. The previous castmates shared that that they had gotten their tattoos carried out at Jennifer Turner Leipart’s birthday celebration in an Instagram publish on Thursday, April 10.

In a single picture, Mellencamp will be seen getting a tattoo on her arm whereas carrying pajamas. The final slide is a black-and-white picture of Richards, Mellencamp and Leipart’s matching arm tattoos: a small match with a flame.

“We love our new tattoos! An ideal match! Yolo 😜,” Richards added within the caption.

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The mother of three first introduced on Instagram in 2022 that she had been recognized with stage II melanoma, and in February this yr, after coping with “extreme and debilitating complications” for weeks, docs found that she had a number of mind tumors.

Since 2022, Mellencamp shared that she has had over a dozen melanomas faraway from her pores and skin, and when she introduced she had developed mind tumors earlier this yr, she mentioned that her docs believed that that they had been “rising for a minimum of six months.”

After present process a craniotomy with a tumor resection, Mellencamp revealed that 4 tumors had been eliminated as an alternative of two. Docs later discovered that she nonetheless had 5 extra tumors in her physique, together with in her lungs.

On April 3, Mellencamp additionally shared a video on her Instagram Tales saying that her most cancers had been labeled as stage 4. Talking with Nightline for an interview that aired on Thursday, April 10, the star shared that her physician advised her that her immunotherapy remedy has a “50/50” probability of working.

“It’s one in all my favourite issues to ask: ‘How lengthy I acquired? What are my probabilities?’ And so they oftentimes say 50/50,” she continued, recalling that she responded: “50/50? I wouldn’t purchase a automotive that’s solely gonna drive 50% of the time. I don’t need this.”

“And [the doctor’s] like, ‘No, it’s solely as a result of that’s how lengthy immunotherapy has been round in order that’s how lengthy the examine has labored.’ In order that’s once I then attempt to discover the optimistic,” she added.