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- Teddi Mellencamp celebrated her 44th birthday July 1 amid her ongoing struggle with stage 4 cancer, which began as melanoma and spread to her brain and lungs
- The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum said she's telling people she's turning 34, not 44, joking, “Maybe it’s the steroids. Maybe it’s wishful thinking. You decide"
- The reality alum celebrated by going to an early dinner with her friends in a sleek, short bobbed wig, having previously shared that her hair is beginning to grow back after treatment
Teddi Mellencamp is in good spirits on her 44th birthday.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum shared a photo on Instagram of herself in a sleek blond bob and cleavage-bearing dress before heading out with friends, including fellow Two T's in a Pod cohost Tamra Judge, to celebrate her July 1 birthday.
“Linner out with friends for my birthday. Celebrating a couple days early because kiddos day off. I accidentally keep telling people I am turning 34 instead of turning 44,” she wrote on the June 30 post. “Maybe it’s the steroids. Maybe it’s wishful thinking. You decide 🤣”
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Mellencamp has been open about her ongoing cancer journey, which began with multiple surgeries to remove melanomas on her back. Then, this past February, she shared that her melanoma had spread to her lungs and brain. But she’s responding to treatment, as she said in an April Instagram post: “All tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma in my brain and lungs) shrunk or disappeared."
Her hair is beginning to grow back as well, she shared, a “real change” that “made me smile.”
At her birthday, she had a few other reasons to smile. One of them was a massive horse-themed cake — she grew up riding horses, and her daughter, Slate, “fell in love with the same animal and sport as her Mama.”
Mellencamp shares three kids: Slate, 12, Cruz, 10 and Dove, 5, with Edwin Arroyave.
She also shared that at her birthday celebration, “I GOT MY FIRST LABUBU,” the trendy, collectable monster dolls that are reselling for big bucks. “And don’t you worry, I got cute little outfits coming its way.”
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Her birthday posts — specifically, her sexy selfie — garnered positive comments from fellow Bravo-lebrities like Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga, who wrote, “Sooo gooodddd 😍.”
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey chimed in to say “Happy Birthday!🎉🎉🎉” and Real Housewives of Dallas star Kameron Westcott shared her approval of the horse-themed dessert: “Happy happy Birthday!! The cake!! So cute!!🎂🫶🎉”
