Kat Timpf is hopeful amid her breast cancer diagnosis.

On Friday, March 14, the Fox News contributor, 36, shared a health update after recently revealing her breast cancer diagnosis to her followers via social media. She learned of the devastating news hours before giving birth to her son.

“Once I recover from childbirth, my mole removal scars heal, I get a double mastectomy, get rid of my cancer, have breast reconstruction surgery & am physically capable of getting back in the gym it’s OVER FOR U BITCHEZ 😎🥵🗣️,” Timpf captioned a single photo upload.

In the picture, she stood in front of a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center sign while wearing sweatpants, a hoodie, a baseball cap and sunshades.

The hashtag “MILF” was also added to her caption. Merriam-Webster defines Milf as “a sexually attractive older woman and especially one who has children.”

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“You’re kicking ass kat! We’re all missing you here,” Fox News political commentator Greg Gutfeld wrote under her post.

Fox Business host Dagen McDowell also sent words of encouragement while making note of Timpf’s comfortable choice of clothing: “I love you. You are as always fiercely hilarious. And those slippers are fire.”

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Kat Timpf, April 2023

On Feb. 25, Timpf announced that her baby boy was safely delivered, however, her “unconventional birth announcement” came with additional life-changing information for the broadcaster.

“Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” she wrote in posts shared on Instagram and X.

She noted that doctors detected the cancer early, finding it while she was in Stage 0, and that they were “confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread.”

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, cancer found at this stage “is highly treatable when detected early.”

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Kat Timpf, October 2023

Timpf added that her baby’s birth, coupled with the breast cancer diagnosis within the same 24-hour span, meant that it “was not a chill day.”

“I woke up more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out,” she wrote, noting that by the end of the day she needed a plan to get both the baby and the cancer out.

Doctors told Timpf “a double mastectomy as soon as possible” would likely be her best route.

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“Still, as I navigate new motherhood (and new cancer) I’m learning to celebrate everything I can. I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom,” she wrote. “I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules — and not just because he might have saved my life.”

Fox News commentator and doctor Kelly Powers has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 45.

Powers was first diagnosed with brain cancer after facing a series of health complications in 2020, and went into remission before the deadly illness returned this year.

She was a regular on the Fox News talk show Red Eye, and made appearances on Fox Business where she led segments on health risks facing Americans
Doctor and Fox News contributor Kelly Powers died after a battle with brain cancer on December 1. Kelly Powers Doll/Instagram

She was a regular on the Fox News talk show Red Eye, and made appearances on Fox Business where she led segments on health risks facing Americans.
But her career in journalism was ancillary to her true passion in medicine.

A successful podiatric surgeon, Powers was educated at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and did her residency at Georgetown and the Boston University School Of Medicine.

“She was a brave and beautiful soul who could make friends anywhere she went. Kelly had a love for people and she was dedicated to helping others,” an obituary for her read.

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After years of helping patients, Powers became one herself while hosting a Fox News segment about heart health when she began to experience shortness of breath and chest pains.

After three surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, Powers managed to beat the cancer back — all while becoming pregnant and giving birth to a boy, Bennett, according to a GoFundMe. Go Fund Me
“It’s crazy – I went into heart failure while doing a report on Fox Business – live – on heart health and talking about the subtle signs that women often miss. You can’t make this up,” she told Preferred Health Magazine in an interview after her first diagnosis.

She battled through that ailment, only to discover she had the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma a short time later.

She referred to herself as “the luckiest unlucky girl” after besting her illnesses, and would joke how her treatment left her and Bennett with the same haircut when he was a baby, the funding page stated. Kelly Powers-Doll/Instagram

Powers is survived by Bennett, 3, and her husband, Steve. Kelly Powers Doll/Instagram
After three surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, she managed to beat the cancer back — all while becoming pregnant and giving birth to a boy, Bennett, according to a GoFundMe.

She referred to herself as “the luckiest unlucky girl” after besting her illnesses, and would joke how her treatment left her and Bennett with the same haircut when he was a baby, the funding page stated.

When her cancer returned in 2024, friends raised nearly $100,000 to help pay for an experimental treatment that insurance wouldn’t cover.