Bachelorette Katie Thurston has changed her mind about having kids, and giving fans some insight into the reasons why.
On Sunday, March 9, Thurston shared a series of Instagram Stories in which she revealed she is preparing to freeze her eggs as she battles cancer. (Thurston shared her breast cancer diagnosis in February.)
“One day you think you don’t want kids,” she wrote in the first Story. “Then one day you meet the man of your dreams and would do anything to make sure we can start a family in the future.”
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Thurston and fiancé Jeff Arcuri got engaged in September 2024.
In the second, Thurston shared a video featuring syringes, medications and alcohol prep pads. The third featured an explanation of everything Thurston is going through ahead of the egg retrieval. “For those who aren’t familiar with fertility treatment here is a typical schedule: 3 pills a day to keep my estrogen down. A shot in my stomach in the AM. Two shots in my stomach in the PM.”
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Thurston also shared that she visits a clinic for a blood draw “every other day” as part of her fertility treatment. She is currently in her second week of the retrieval process.
“My emotions are crazy,” she also wrote. “My sleep/dreams are crazy. And I’m tired. My stomach is officially sore from the needles.”
The reality star is preparing for her first egg retrieval this weekend, saying that she has “ the opportunity to do this all over again for another two weeks.” She revealed that she also wants to let her body “recover/prepare for whatever cancer treatments come my way in April.”
Thurston shared her recent cancer diagnosis in a video posted to her Stories on February 15. “I had a small lump in my breast around the 10’oclock [sic] spot,” she said at the time. “I discovered it myself. Thought maybe it was my period [or] maybe it was muscle soreness from working out. But, eventually, this lump never went away.”
She added that she once had a benign cyst removed that felt similar, so “[I] thought maybe it was that again.”
“Went to the doc thinking it was going to be nothing,” she recalled. “I was wrong.”
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Thurston also noted the lump is painful, so she didn’t think it was cancer. “[That] probably led to more doubt and delay on getting it checked out as most [websites] will say ‘most breast cancers don’t hurt,’” she explained. “I thought it was PMS or working out. … My first lump (benign cyst) felt like a pea or marble [and] hard, unnatural, but didn’t cause me discomfort. The second felt larger. The pain initially came and went, but maybe after 3-4 months of it not going away or improving, I got nervous and saw my doctor.”
The diagnosis came after several biopsies. Thurston said she plans to undergo chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
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