Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi has revealed she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The Jersey Shore star, 38, shared the news with her 4.1 million TikTok followers after receiving the results of a recent cone biopsy.
She had previously told fans in January that she needed a colposcopy and biopsy.
“It came back stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma,” she said in a video, sighing.
“Obviously not the news I’ve been hoping for, but also not the worst news just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking God!”
The TV personality, who is a mum of three, then urged other women to get their smear tests done.
“I’m 38 years old and I’ve been struggling with abnormal pap smears for three or four years now, and now look at me,” she said.
“Instead of putting it off because I didn’t want to go, because I was hurt and scared, I just went and did it.
“And it was there, cancer is in there. But it’s stage 1 and it’s curable.”
She added: “So get your appointments done! I’m telling you!
“Once you go to stage 2, then you have to do chemo... nobody wants to do that! It’s scary. So get your appointments done.”
Snooki then said she will be transferred to an oncologist and then have a PET scan to see if the cancer has spread.
She said her doctor said she could have chemotherapy and radiation, or get a hysterectomy.
“Obviously, I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy,” she added.
“I’ll still keep my ovaries, which is a good sign. But yeah, gotta get the cervix and uterus out. It all depends on the PET scan.”
“So 2026 is not panning out how I wanted it to,” she continued. “But also, it could be worse.”
The MTV star said she felt compelled to talk about her diagnosis to help other women.
“A lot of women go through it silently without anyone to talk to and they’re scared by themselves,” she said.
“And that was me until I decided to upload the video about what was happening with me,” she added.
“I like that we have a platform here to talk about it with each other.
“I appreciate all of the love. Everything’s going to be fine. I’m going to tackle this and get it done.
“I gotta keep attacking this and everything’s gonna be great.”
