Bachelor in Paradise alum Jade Roper is contemplating how to best treat a cyst located on her scalp.
“Update on my cyst. They said they would have to SHAVE my head in the spot it’s at, so now I’m second-guessing everything,” Roper, 38, wrote via her Instagram Story on Friday, May 30. “I don’t know if I want a giant shaved spot on the top of my head.”
In a follow-up post, Roper clarified that she has a pilar cyst. According to the Cleveland Clinic, pilar cysts grow from hair follicles, surfacing on an individual’s scalp, face, neck, arms or legs.
“It’s benign and doesn’t NEED to be removed since it’s also not inflamed or infected or anything,” Roper explained on Friday. “I just wanted it removed. It sounds like I should get a second opinion, but I’m not avoiding taking care of a cyst they are worried about and want to test, or anything like that.”
Roper rose to fame as one of the contestants on Chris Soules’ season 19 of The Bachelor. She later met her now-husband, Tanner Tolbert, during the second season of Bachelor in Paradise. The pair wed in 2016.
Roper and Tolbert, 38, went on to welcome children Emmy, Brooks and Reed in 2017, 2019 and 2020, respectively. Three years later, Roper suffered a missed miscarriage with a baby they planned to name Beau.
“I’ve been struggling with what to write here as I’ve been navigating a miscarriage. It felt like all my dreams were coming true to welcome another baby into our lives, to love and to complete our family,” Roper wrote via Instagram in 2023. “While our hearts our completely broken and we have been dealing with the deep and complex grief of the loss, we have been blessed to be touched by his soul for his short amount of time. I am forever changed.”
She added at the time, “I’ve been carrying him with so much pride and cherish every moment still left with part of him, but it has also been equally as challenging and devastating. So while I hold my belly here, our sweet baby’s body is resting in my womb as his soul soars.”
Roper, who lives in Kansas City with Tolbert and their children, now believes they are finished expanding their family.
“I think we are done, which is very bittersweet,” she said in a November 2024 social media post. “I’m that person that I guess I don’t think I’ll ever feel that feeling of ‘our family is complete.’”
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