Kat Timpf isn’t sugarcoating her recovery. The Fox News star, comedian, and new mom has revealed the raw truth about life after a double mastectomy, and why she refuses to stay silent. In a candid New York Times interview, the 36-year-old got brutally honest about the realities of breast cancer, surgery, and why humor is still her best weapon.
Even after battling breast cancer and undergoing major surgery, Timpf’s trademark wit hasn’t gone anywhere. She admitted that questions about breastfeeding often force her into blunt replies: “I just cut my tits off.”
Fans of Gutfeld! already know she doesn’t shy away from heavy topics, whether sparring with Greg Gutfeld or joking about Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad. “I was watching it on the couch. And I thought, ‘Should I have gone bigger?’” she quipped.
But beneath the laughs, she acknowledged the reality of her journey: “I’ve been through a lot, but I’m also still kind of going through it. Like, ‘I still don’t have nipples’ is probably the best way to describe it.”
A Mother’s Struggle and Strength
Behind the scenes, Timpf faced the hardest moments of her life. Her sister noticed a lump on her nipple as she was trying to induce labor, leading to a diagnosis just 15 hours before labor began.
She had only a month to recover from childbirth before enduring a double mastectomy. She recalled lying in bed with open wounds and still bleeding from labor as her newborn cried for his mom. At times, she couldn’t even hold her son and had to call for help.
“I don’t think that those are small things,” she said of her ongoing reconstruction process. “I think that those are big things.” Her reconstruction process will continue into the next year, including surgery to rebuild her nipples, which is another step in what she calls a long, complicated road to healing.
Owning Her Story With Brutal Honesty
Timpf has always believed in using her platform to speak openly. Whether shutting down internet trolls or sharing hospital snapshots, she hopes her honesty will give strength to other women fighting breast cancer. “It’s a weird thing, which is part of the reason why I’ve decided to be so open about it,” she explained.
She’s also turned her darkest moments into humor, writing about what she once called an “unconventional birth announcement.” Hours before meeting her son, she was cracking jokes about whether to pin her tumor ultrasound to the fridge next to the baby’s. “I’m lucky we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom,” she wrote.
Still Kat, Still Unfiltered
From performing at sold-out comedy shows to her regular appearances on Gutfeld!, Timpf isn’t slowing down. She knows her life looks very different now, but she’s still finding resilience in the chaos, and laughter in the pain. As she put it herself: “These next three months of maternity leave are going to look a lot different than I’d anticipated. Still, as I navigate new motherhood (and new cancer), I’m learning to celebrate everything I can.”
