TEDDI TIES UP LOOSE ENDS!

Bravely steels her kids for life without mom

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TV HOUSEWIVES star Teddi Mellencamp is bravely fighting a life-or-death battle with cancer, but sources sadly reveal that the rampaging tumors have spread throughout her body — and now the tragic mom is focusing on the future of her three young kids after she’s gone!

The 43-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills beauty has already suffered through about 20 surgeries over a three-year period for melanoma skin cancer. But on Feb. 12, doctors leveled her with the grim news that the savage disease had spread to her brain, forcing her to undergo emergency surgery to remove four large tumors and endure more grueling radiation treatment!

She was smacked with even more bad news March 7 after docs discovered three more tumors growing on her brain, and two others on her lungs.