Cobie Smulders had ovarian cancer at 25 & worried she wouldn’t be able to have kids

Nov 1, 2018 Author: | Filed under: Celebrities

When celebrities with medical issues get pharmaceutical endorsements I almost always mention that I have mixed feelings. It’s refreshing in that it comes across like a genuine partnership. It also feels like a company is using a popular face and a compelling story to sell a product (at a high price) for people in medical crisis. The FDA vets medication thoroughly and it’s a difficult, expensive process to get a drug approved. However companies also make small changes to drugs once there’s competition just to get a new patent and charge more.

That’s all preface to this story about actress Cobie Smulders, now 36 with two children, recounting her ovarian cancer experience at just 25. She was worried that her fertility would be affected, that she wouldn’t be able to have kids, and she also was frustrated at the lack of information online. This isn’t the first time Cobie has talked about this, she told Women’s Health about it in 2015. Cobie has been married to Taran Killam of SNL since 2012 and they have daughters Shaelyn, 9, and Joelle, 3. She’s now partnering with a company called Tesaro which has a maintenance drug for ovarian cancer called Zejula. It’s priced at upwards of $10,000 a MONTH. Medicare does cover it, although I read one complaint that it costs $3,500 a month with medicare until you meet the deductible. After that it’s $755 a month. Still not affordable for most. (An insider in the pharmaceutical insider told me the high cost may be due to the small population being treated along with the duration of intended treatment.) Here’s what she told People:

When Cobie Smulders was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was just 25 years old and without a road map on how to get through it.

“It was a mess,” she tells PEOPLE. “I think it was messy mostly because I had a great fear of not being able to have kids. I’ve always been very maternal, I’ve always loved children and I’ve always wanted one of my own, and so having that not being option, especially at such a young age — kids were very much not on my mind at 25, but I still wanted them one day — it was really hard and it was a really depressing thing to go through.”

“I remember doing mad, crazy Google searches on my disease and trying to understand it better, and obviously I was talking to my doctors, but there wasn’t at the time and it was very bleak,” she says.

Smulders went into control mode, and tried everything under the sun to get her body back to health, from cutting out cheese and carbohydrates to yoga classes, acupuncture, crystal healers and more.

Thankfully, her surgeon was able to save enough of her ovaries — just one-third — for her to have two kids (“it was very small but mighty, apparently,” she says) and she has been in remission for nearly a decade.

Smulders resisted talking about her cancer for years, until she revealed her battle in a 2015 issue of Women’s Health.

“For me at the time, I just wanted to deal with it on my own and with my family,” she says now. “I wasn’t interested in sharing it with anybody. It doesn’t really benefit the world until now, when I can say, ‘this is what I went through and I survived it. These are the things I did and these are the things I learned and these are the things I can show you.’ Before it just felt like something I want to deal with myself.”

“There’s a statistic that 85 percent of women who had advanced ovarian cancer had a recurrence, and when you’re faced against those odds it’s a very terrifying place to be in,” she says. “I think for those women, it’s a great opportunity to have treatment options that weren’t available to me when I was going through my own cancer. It’s kind of a new day of more options and more awareness, and a place and a time where you can get more answers.”

[From People]

If I had ovarian cancer I would want to be on a drug that had been clinically shown to quadruple the time before recurrence. (If I’m reading the wiki page for it accurately.) However I’m appalled at the cost, which seems so prohibitively high. The healthcare system in the US is just so broken and expensive that so many of us face the scary decision of getting treatment or going bankrupt. That issue looms for so many of us no matter how healthy we are now. A medical crisis for us or a family member could easily cost us our livelihoods.

As for Cobie I understand why she’s working with this company and I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. Medicine is a for-profit business and it’s big business. Even for something we consider so personal.

Also I just learned she’s Canadian. Lucky bitch.

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Happy Canada Day!! Oh Canada my home and native land…I’m so happy to have your name on my passport….#canadaday

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’90 Day Fiance’ Star Karine Staehle Shares Pregnancy Update in English

Nov 1, 2018 Author: Admin | Filed under: Celebrities

90 Day Fiance star Karine Staehle is sharing a pregnancy update. She is now pregnant with her husband Paul’s child. The couple seems really excited about this baby on the way. In Touch Weekly shared that Karine actually just gave an update and she did it in English!

One big issue that Paul and Karine Staehle have with their relationship is the fact that they don’t speak the same language. They have been able to use translation apps on their phones, but now it looks like Karine is learning a bit of English. This will make things so much better for them.

The video was actually on Snapchat and she gave an update on her pregnancy. Fans aren’t used to hearing Karine speak in English, so that was a pretty big shocker to everyone. The crazy thing is her English is really good!

Karine shared in the video that she is excited to meet Pauls’ family and “experience his culture.” The way she is talking it sounds like she has been working really hard on her English. Karine said that the baby is “very active” during her pregnancy. That is a great sign. It has been kicking her as well. She teased that someday the baby will be a good soccer player.

Karine Staehle did have one miscarriage before getting pregnant with this child. The couple seems really excited about the baby on the way. Paul and Karine were together, then got engaged and married. Not long after that, she ended up getting pregnant. Through every bit of this they couldn’t talk to each other in the same language, but somehow they fell in love.

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It is great that Karine is giving updates on how the baby is doing. Hopefully, she will continue to do this through her pregnancy. Paul and Karine have had some trouble being back and forth from Brazil. If they were on a future season of 90 Day Fiance then the fans would finally get the answers that they want about where this couple is living now and more.

Are you excited for Paul and Karine Staehle to have their baby? Do you hope they are on a future season of 90 Day Fiance? Let us know in the comments and make sure you don’t miss the new season of 90 Day Fiance when it airs on Sunday nights on TLC. Right now, Paul and Karine aren’t on the season, but hopefully, they come back sometime in the future.

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