Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi revealed she has stage 1 cervical cancer and may have to undergo a hysterectomy.
The “Jersey Shore” alum took to TikTok Friday to announce her adenocarcinoma diagnosis after getting the results of her recent cone biopsy, a procedure where surgeons remove a cone-shaped wedge of abnormal tissue from the cervix, per the Cleveland Clinic.
“Obviously not the news I was hoping for, but also not the worst news, just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking god,” she said. “2026 is not panning out the way I want it to but it could be worse.”
“Everything is going to be fine. I’m going to tackle this and get it done. We got some steps to do.”
Polizzi, 38, encouraged her followers to make pap smear appointments because she had been “struggling with abnormal pap smears for about three or four years now.”
“Now look at me. Instead of just putting if off because I didn’t want to go and it hurt and I was scared, no, I just went and did it and there was cancer in there and it was only stage one and it’s curable.”
She further explained that in her case, the “cancer cells did not go up into the cervix” and the doctors were able to remove the tumor by removing the “chunk of tissue” from the cone biopsy.
“Obviously it can still spread in my body,” she noted. “I’m just learning this because it’s all just happening in my body at real time.”
Polizzi’s next step is getting a PET Scan which she explained will “detect if the cancer spread.”
“After that, I’m going to probably get the hysterectomy because the oncologist said I can either do chemo radiation or the hysterectomy. Obviously I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy,” she continued, adding that even with the procedure she will get to keep her ovaries.
“Got to get the cervix and the uterus out and then possibly lymph nodes because it can got to that,” she added.
The reality star also encouraged any women suffering from cervical cancer to share their experience in the comments section because she doesn’t want anyone to fight alone.
“We are a community of women and there’s literally no platform or anywhere where women are talking about this. A lot of women go through it silently without anyone to talk to and they’re scared by themselves.”
She concluded her emotional video by thanking other women who have spoke out about their diagnosis’s because it made her “feel seen.”
The “Snooki & Jwoww” alum first opened up about her health scares last month, revealing that her abnormal pap smear results and precancerous cells led her to undergo an “uncomfortable” colposcopy and biopsy.
“Results come back. Doctor calls me and he’s like, ‘Not looking great.’ He found cancerous cells on the top of my cervix,” she said. “I’m terrified. It’s scary, but we have to get it done because cervical cancer is nothing to joke about.”
Polizzi — who welcomed Lorenzo, 13, Giovanna, 11, and Angelo, 6, with husband Jionni LaValle — clarified that she’s “done having kids,” but the “thought of getting a hysterectomy is just sad and scary.”
“Getting the hysterectomy and then not being able to have kids, I think that’s what’s killing me.”
“But whatever to keep me healthy and safe to be here for my kids that I have now.”
