Former 'Jersey Shore' star Snooki says she has cervical cancer

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi said Friday that she has cervical cancer.

The erstwhile "Jersey Shore" prima said successful a video posted to TikTok that a biopsy had revealed the signifier 1 cancer.

"Obviously not the quality that I was hoping for," she said, sitting successful her car betwixt aesculapian appointments. "But besides not the worst news, conscionable due to the fact that they caught it truthful early, convey freaking God."

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi arrives astatine the MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 11, 2024, astatine UBS Arena successful Elmont, N.Y.

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She urged her followers to get Pap smears, and said she is apt to person a hysterectomy aft her archetypal treatment.

"So 2026 is not panning retired however I wanted it to," she said.

Polizzi became 1 of the breakout stars of "Jersey Shore" from its debut connected MTV successful 2009. She was connected the world amusement for six seasons and appeared successful the aboriginal spinoffs "Snooki & JWoww" and "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation."

Now 38, she inactive lives successful New Jersey, has been joined for 11 years and has 3 children.