Teddi Mellencamp Requested to Go on GLP-1s Amid Her Cancer Journey

Johnni Macke Fri, April 24, 2026 at 12:15 AM UTC

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Teddi Mellencamp isn’t feeling like herself after gaining weight amid her cancer journey — so she tried to do something about it by getting prescribed a GLP-1 medication.

"I am a health and wellness coach who's dying of cancer," Mellencamp, 44, said with a laugh on the Wednesday, April 22, episode of her “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast while joined by guest cohost, Dolores Catania.

Mellencamp explained, "And because I gained weight from the steroids [from my treatment], because I'm getting bigger from the steroids, I asked my doctor if I could please have GLP-1s. And he was like, 'No!'"

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum was frustrated over the conversation, saying, “Let me live!”

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Mellencamp recalled thinking that her doctor is telling her to “live my best life, but I don’t even get [the meds I want].” She scoffed, “Live your best life? Where are my GLP-1s?”

Catania, 55, was instantly on Mellencamp’s side, and suggested she get the weight-loss drugs from another source.

"I'm so sorry someone told you no," Catania said. "But I don't know that I'd listen!"

Mellencamp noted, "I mean, I know people where I could get it. I have friends that do it."

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Catania offered Mellencamp to join her own weight-loss journey, saying, "Well, I'm taking it tomorrow if you wanna start with me."

The more the Real Housewives of New Jersey alum thought about how Mellencamp’s doctor reacted to her GLP-1s request, Catania felt increasingly hopeful that Mellencamp had a better chance at survival than previously anticipated.

"I think maybe someone's lying," Catania said. "I don't think you're dying. Because [if you were dying,] he would've said, 'Oh, if that's what you want, sure! Take that, go do some coke, go snort whatever you want!'"

Mellencamp has been honest about her ups and downs with cancer since being diagnosed with stage II melanoma in 2022. After undergoing 17 surgeries during the next two years, Mellencamp told her fans in February 2025 that doctors found multiple tumors on her brain, two of which were removed that day.

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The former reality star revealed the following month that her cancer had metastasized and was upgraded to stage 4.

In April 2025, Mellencamp exclusively told Us Weekly that doctors found more brain tumors and she was “fighting for my life.” Six months later, Mellencamp announced that her October 2025 scans showed “no detectable cancer.”

Mellencamp’s health journey, however, was far from over. She shared in January with her podcast listeners that the medications and immunotherapy have taken a “toll on my body.”

She noted that she has since begun therapy and it’s been an eye-opening experience. “I’ve learned that there are certain things, like it’s hard for me to touch and move,” Mellencamp said. “I can see that I’m slower than I was before, and that’s really frustrating to me. I want to be back to the way I was.”

Mellencamp confessed, “Now that the storm has calmed a little, now I’m processing. Now I’m starting to develop fear where I didn’t have fear before.”

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Source: “AOL Entertainment”