‘Joking About My Cancer Is Freeing’

JUST BEFORE HER BABY WAS BORN, FOX NEWS PANELIST KAT TIMPF LEARNED SHE HAD BREAST CANCER. NOW SHE’S FINDING STRENGTH IN MOTHERHOOD AND COMEDY

- VANESSA ETIENNE,VICTORIA STEVENS

Kat Timpf was nine months pregnant with her first child—and using a breast pump one afternoon to try to induce labor—when she noticed a lump on her nipple. Fifteen hours before going into labor, she was diagnosed with stage zero breast cancer, the earliest noninvasive form of the disease. “I kind of blacked out. I wasn’t able to process what was happening,” says the comedian, 37. “It was just crazy.”

After undergoing a double mastectomy while still navigating postpartum symptoms, the panelist for Fox News’s