Comedian Kat Timpf welcomes first child 15 hours after breast cancer diagnosis

Comedian Kat Timpf has welcomed her archetypal kid — a babe boy. She has besides been diagnosed with “a small bit” of bosom cancer, she says.

The “Gutfeld!” panelist and Fox News contributor connected Tuesday confirmed some updates with what she called “An Unconventional Birth Announcement” posted to her societal media pages.

“Last week, I welcomed my archetypal kid into the world. About 15 hours earlier I went into labor, I was diagnosed with bosom cancer,” Timpf, 36, wrote successful a statement, confirming the accomplishment of her lad with hubby Cameron Friscia, a erstwhile Army Ranger whom she wed successful 2021.

Advising her followers not to worry, Timpf said her crab is considered Stage 0 and her doc is “confident that it astir surely hasn’t spread.”

“As I’ve explained to the fewer radical I’ve managed to archer astir it truthful far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a small spot of cancer,” she wrote, noting successful her connection that the champion people of enactment for her was to person a treble mastectomy. She did not bespeak what benignant of bosom crab she had.

“Still, it was not a chill day,” she wrote. “I mean to accidental the least!”

Timpf, who announced her pregnancy successful July, said she woke up the greeting earlier she gave commencement much than a week past her owed day and was “consumed” by doing everything she could to “get the babe out.” By that afternoon, she was alternatively “waddling astir from assignment to appointment, talking astir however to get the crab out.” In the mediate of the nighttime she went into spontaneous labor.

“The bully news? People who enactment astatine hospitals marque fantabulous audiences for acheronian wit — and, arsenic idiosyncratic whose archetypal publication was astir the powerfulness of jokes to get done traumatic situations, determination was truly nary amended spot for maine to be,” Timpf said. “Just minutes aft my lad was born, I was talking with the nurses astir what a commencement announcement successful my concern mightiness look like.”

Some options: “Mom and babe are doing well, but possibly for mom’s cancer” oregon “The babe aft breastfeeding is stunted by her treble mastectomy.”

The “You Can’t Joke About That” and “I Used to Like You Until...” writer said the adjacent 3 months of maternity permission would beryllium antithetic from what she anticipated arsenic she’s “still getting utilized to my caller reality.”

“As I navigate caller motherhood (and caller cancer) I’m learning to observe everything I can. I’m fortunate that we recovered the crab truthful early; I’m fortunate to beryllium my son’s mom. I mean, I cognize I’m biased, but the small dude perfectly rules — and not conscionable due to the fact that helium mightiness person saved my life,” she said.

The “Sincerely, Kat” big thanked her fans and followers for their enactment arsenic she embraces “this wildly unexpected chapter.”

“Here’s to resilience, to miracles successful the midst of chaos, and to uncovering wit and anticipation adjacent connected the toughest days.”

In a July portion for Fox News announcing her gestation and declaring that she was neither a Republican oregon Democrat, the libertarian performer wrote that she ne'er wanted to person kids until she met her husband.

“[M]eeting him made maine consciousness similar it could really beryllium a chill happening to do,” she wrote astatine the time. “Part of it was feeling similar thing was missing successful my life. Part of it was simply that I was curious. Part of it was that, well, I low-key felt similar I had done everything other already. Part of it was, arsenic ridiculous arsenic this sounds, I thought that it would beryllium funny.”

Timpf besides opened up astir her gestation successful a September interrogation with The Times, describing however for years she would beryllium called retired for not having children.

“For years I was getting these hatred comments ... past I got pregnant, and you would person thought that this is what these radical wanted, right? I mean, I didn’t bash it for them, but present radical are saying, ‘Can you conscionable unopen up astir being large already?’ Some of them are the aforesaid people!” she said.

“Some radical are conscionable gonna beryllium haters nary substance what. I conscionable hatred the whole, ‘Oh, you’re not the archetypal idiosyncratic successful the satellite to beryllium pregnant.’ I cognize that! But it’s the archetypal clip I’ve been pregnant! Life tin beryllium truthful monotonous and determination are truthful fewer things that animate a consciousness of genuine wonderment and amazement astir beingness and being alive. I’ve been truthful dormant wrong that sometimes I’m conscionable like, fto maine person this! You’re huffy that I’m blessed and excited astir having a baby?”