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Katie Thurston has been sharing every step of her cancer journey with fans, including her plans for breast removal surgery.
Thurston, 34, revealed during the Tuesday, July 29, episode of the “Off the Vine” podcast that she will require surgery amid her ongoing battle with stage 4 breast cancer — but not yet.
“We waited to see that the medicine is working. And it is,” Thurston explained to podcast host Kaitlyn Bristowe. “So we’re gonna basically give it three more months, and then I can do a double mastectomy, get a boob job if I want, which is, I think, the route I’m gonna go.”
Thurston joked that her husband, Jeff Arcuri, is hoping she goes bigger with her post-surgery breast implants, even though she is a “petite” woman.
“I make jokes, but I don’t care,” Arcuri, 37, chimed in, confirming he is happy with whatever size the former Bachelorette ultimately chooses.
“With petite women sometimes, it can be too much,” Thurston said, noting, “It’s been a challenge of, like, ‘I’ve worked my whole life to finally be confident in my breast era and then you’re telling me I gotta chop them off and get new ones?’”
Thurston publicly announced in February that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the next month, she revealed that the cancer had spread into her liver, making it stage 4.
“I know stage four can sound very scary, and it can be,” Thurston told her followers via a March Instagram video. “However, given that I am triple positive and the spots on my liver are fairly small and detected early, I feel very optimistic on my outcome.”
Despite facing an uphill battle, Thurston has remained optimistic and has refused to stop enjoying life.
In March, Thurston married Arcuri, a comedian. In between chemotherapy treatments and doctors’ appointments, the couple has continued to have a blast together, traveling to Italy in the spring and Greece this summer.
“I enjoyed wine. I enjoyed the sugars, you know, the desserts. I enjoyed the memories that I’m making,” Thurston said of her time in Greece via a July Instagram Story. “Because what’s the point of not living when you’re given today? You know, when you’re given life? And that’s how I feel every day, I’m just like, ‘Thank you.’ Every night I go to bed, I’m like, ‘Thank you for giving me today.’”
While Thurston revealed earlier this month that doctors put her body into medically induced menopause to help treat her cancer, she told Bristowe, 40, that she’s hopeful for the day when she’s only sharing positive health updates.
“My hope for the future is that, whether it’s this year or next year, I’ll be like, ‘Hey guys, there’s no evidence of disease,’” Thurston said on Tuesday. “Even though technically, stage 4 is not curable. Technically, medically, I will have breast cancer forever. But with so much advancement happening and the way that I caught it when I did, I’m very optimistic.”
