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Katie Thurston is going through the wringer in her Stage 4 breast cancer battle. The “Bachelorette” alum, 34, gave a heartbreaking health update in an Instagram video posted Sunday. “I just
finished my second month of treatment and if you’re asking how long treatment is, technically forever,” Thurston told her followers. “I am optimistic about medical advancements in the future
— fingers crossed as a stage 4 girly.” “But right now, after finishing two months of my medication, my hair is coming out in an unnatural amount of clumps,” the reality star shared. “I’m
losing my memory. That’s great. Going through customs and them being like, ‘Where are you coming from?’ And I looked at him and I was like, ‘I don’t remember.'” EXPLORE MORE Thurston
explained that she recently got into a “little disagreement” with her husband, comedian Jeff Arcuri, where she couldn’t defend herself because of her memory issues. “I was like, ‘This has
happened before,’” she recalled. “He was like, ‘When?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know but I know it has!’ We’re able to laugh about it now.” “Cancer is s–t,” Thurston continued. “Sometimes I’m
like, ‘Stop feeling bad for yourself.’ Other times I’m like, ‘You’re allowed to feel bad for yourself. Cancer f—ing sucks.’” Thurston explained that she’s reached the phase of her treatment
where she has to make “big decisions” about how to treat her liver. She said she’s opted for histotripsy, which uses focused ultrasound to destroy cancer cells without cutting into the body.
“It’s National Cancer Survivors Day,” she said. “Every day that I’m alive, I’m a survivor. So go me, I guess.” Thurston originally competed on Matt James’ season of “The Bachelor” in 2021
and then became the star of “The Bachelorette” Season 17. One month before her intimate wedding to Acuri, 37, in New York City in March, Thurston publicly revealed her breast cancer
diagnosis. “I experienced a range of emotions over the past two weeks. Despair. Anger. Sadness. Denial. And then strength. Purposeful. Ready. I cried a lot,” she said in a message on
Instagram. In March, Thurston shared that her cancer had spread to her liver and was Stage 4. “I know stage four can sound very scary, and it can be,” she said. “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.” Thurston’s cancer was discovered after she found a lump on her breast,
which led to her getting a mammogram.