💔😥 “I’m Reaching My Limit” — Janelle Brown Makes a Tearful Departure From the Show as Her Cancer Battle Intensifies Like Never Before
After 30 years, “Sister Wives” reality TV star Janelle Brown, 54, has called it quits with Kody Brown, 54, and is now focusing on her six children and a real estate agent career.
This renewed outlook on life comes on the heels of her overcoming an unexpected bout with basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer she once thought was an unsuspecting scar.
Janelle Brown is one of four women featured on the “Sister Wives” TLC reality show. Four women are all “married” to Kody Brown, and they all have 18 children. On the show, Janelle and Kody would have frequent marital problems, and she revealed the two were “spiritually” married but never legally married.
“Many of you have been noticing and reaching out to me about the blemish above my lip on the new episodes,” Janelle wrote on her Instagram, addressing the issue.
“I am posting this picture hopefully for awareness,” she added, showing her with a bandage covering her upper lip.
The real estate agent turned reality star was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common form of skin cancer, with an estimated 3.6 million cases diagnosed each year in the U.S., according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.
BCC is highly treatable if found early. This form of skin cancer “tends to grow slowly” and “seldom spreads to another part of the body,” the American Academy of Dermatology Association says. It can appear as red, pink, brown, black, or gray spots on the skin. The spots can be sensitive to touch and become itchy or numb.
“At first, I thought it was a new cold sore forming, but then it never developed and just stayed,” Janelle Brown wrote.
“Over the next year or so, it slowly increased in size. I started treating it with every scar medication I could find, thinking it was my body reacting to the years of trauma to that area of my face,” she continued in her post.
Upon her diagnosis, the skin cancer was non-malignant (non-cancerous). However, she still had it removed.
“All is well,” she added, following a successful procedure.
