Teddi Mellencamp shares how she’s celebrating Mother’s Day amid cancer battle
As Teddi Mellencamp continues to battle cancer, her focus is on this weekend and celebrating Mother’s Day with her children.
In April, in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Mellencamp said she wasn’t just “fighting for my life, but also for my family’s life and all the people I love.”
On Friday, May 9, Mellencamp took to Instagram to ask her followers how they were planning on celebrating Mother’s Day.
In the same post, Mellencamp shared her own Mother’s Day plans, writing that she will be “celebrating with kids on Saturday at Wango Tango and relaxing Sunday.”
The former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star added that she was “feeling good today and taking full advantage.”
A day earlier, Mellencamp shared a photo of herself and her youngest daughter, Dove, and wondered in the caption if it’s “time to stop calling her baby Dove,” now that she’s 5 years old. “Nah, I didn’t think so.”
Her followers agreed. “We even still call our middle ‘baby Adeline.’ When it fits, it fits,” one commenter shared.
“I still call my almost 24 year old my baby. Your youngest is always your baby,” said another.
In addition to Dove, Mellencamp also shares a 12-year-old daughter, Slate, and a 10-year-old son, Cruz, with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave. Mellencamp is also a stepmom to Arroyave’s 16-year-old daughter, Isabella, from a previous relationship.
Mellencamp was first diagnosed with Melanoma in 2022. In February, she learned that the cancer had progressed to stage 4 melanoma, metastasizing to her lungs and brain.
She underwent brain surgery to remove multiple tumors.
While talking to Us Weekly in April, Mellencamp admitted that she no longer says her once popular catchphrase, “Moms always come back.”
“I have not said that line to them since I’ve been back (from the hospital),” Mellencamp said. “They all know that I’m fighting the hardest I possibly can, but I haven’t said (it) because I don’t want to lie to them. And I don’t know.”
This story was originally published May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM with the headline "Teddi Mellencamp shares how she’s celebrating Mother’s Day amid cancer battle."