Teddi Mellencamp revealed how longtime good friend Tamra Judge is doing after she skilled a well being scare — and was hospitalized — earlier this month.
“She’s doing so much better. She was actually at the gym today,” Mellencamp, 42, solely advised Us Weekly on Friday, October 20, whereas selling her partnership with Hyland’s Naturals for its first-ever Women’s Health line. “She definitely must be feeling good.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum defined that Judge, 56, first bought “quite sick” when she was in Scotland filming Peacock’s The Traitors in September. Once Judge returned from the present “she just really wasn’t feeling well,” which led to her eventual go to to the hospital.
“I’m just so grateful she went into the doctor when she did,” Mellencamp added. “So, if you’re feeling something in your body and you’re in pain, most of the time you know you’ve got to trust your instincts and go ahead and go in.”
Judge confirmed her well being scare on October 9, sharing a selfie from her hospital mattress. At the time, she stated she was admitted for an “intestinal obstruction.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County star famous that she must miss her and Mellencamp’s “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast that week as she dealt together with her sickness. Judge additionally clapped again at trolls claiming her well being points had been attributable to allegedly utilizing Ozempic, which is a diabetes medicine that many Bravo stars have used to drop pounds.
“These comments that I’m on Ozempic are disgusting,” Judge wrote through X on the time. “I’ve suffered from intestinal problems for years. I’ve had multiple surgeries in the past 12 years.”
She added: “Remember when you all made fun of me for not having a belly button? That was due to emergency life-saving surgery. Part of my intestines were being strangled. My grandmother died of intestinal problems. I’ve never been on Ozempic and personally, wouldn’t use it for weight loss!”
Days later, Judge gave her followers an replace on her situation. She defined that the issue began 4 weeks earlier when she determined to “power through” her abdomen ache whereas within the U.Ok. Doctors later found that Judge was having ache due to her previous surgical procedures and the remaining scar tissue. The physicians had been capable of treatment the scenario with out surgical procedure, Judge shared through X on October 11.
Mellencamp, in the meantime, has been coping with her personal well being struggles after confirming final month that her melanoma had returned.
“Right now, I’m on an immunotherapy cream,” she advised Us on Friday. “Because my last melanoma that I had surgically removed, the margins aren’t clear. So I had two options: to either start on this cream or do a full skin graft of my entire shoulder and it’s quite large.”
Mellencamp — who was initially recognized with stage II melanoma in October 2022 — opted to start out with the cream to see if it’ll “clear things up” over the following 5 weeks. “I’m trying to avoid another big surgery,” she defined, noting if it doesn’t enhance, she must reevaluate.
In addition to working towards being cancer-free, Mellencamp is concentrated on bettering her general well being. That’s the place her partnership with Hyland’s Naturals for the model’s Women’s Health line is available in.
“I think as a mother and somebody who’s gone through so many health issues myself, I’m now more than ever more conscientious about what I’m putting in my body,” she stated. “And the fact that Hyland’s Naturals has been around for over 100 years dedicating themselves to providing safe and effective wellness solutions. Once I found out they’ve now launched these women’s wellness vitamins, I was like, ‘OK, I’m all in on this.’”
Mellencamp gushed over the merchandise, revealing, “I think the beauty of this health line is there’s something for everybody in all different phases of your life. The Women’s Multi + PMS Rescue [is great] because I mean we all struggle with that.”
The former actuality star known as Hyland’s Naturals new assortment “a one stop shop for all the things that we need,” together with the Prenatal Multi + Digestion & Morning Sickness which she stated she wished was round when she was pregnant.
Learn extra about Hyland’s Naturals first-ever Women’s Health line at hylands.com.
With reporting by Sarah Jones
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