The Bachelorette alum Katie Thurston shared an emotional update amid her stage 4 breast cancer battle.
Posting a clip of herself via her Instagram Story on Friday, August 29, Thurston, 34, confessed she was “crying on a Friday night” as she worried that she had contracted COVID.
“Having breast cancer has you literally Googling everything and questioning everything. I’m exhausted. So exhausted,” the reality star said in the Instagram post. “But this is my off week for my medicine and so this was supposed to be the week where I like recover and start to feel good again and whatever.”
Thurston told her followers that she had ordered a COVID test due to arrive “shortly” but wasn’t sure if she was “overthinking” things.
“I’m nervous because I don’t actually know what happens, I know it sounds like I’ll cry. Why am I going to cry?” a teary Thurston said.
She continued, “Ugh. Breast cancer just has you, like, freaking out about everything. You know, you’re like, ‘Oh, what’s COVID like when you have breast cancer? What’s COVID like when you have low white blood cell counts? Maybe I’m just f***ing crashing out, I don’t know guys.”
After wiping tears from eyes, Thurston was determined to look on the bright side.
“To be honest though, I also ordered ice cream with my COVID test so everything’s going to be OK today,” she said.
In a follow up Instagram Story post, Thurston shared a photo of her COVID test as well her Ben & Jerry’s ice cream purchase.
“No COVID. Just a tired hypochondriac with breast cancer,” she wrote, confirming the test returned a negative result.
After finding a lump in November 2024, Thurston was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2025 and divulged the health development via her Instagram Story that same month..
“I had a small lump in my breast around the 10’oclock [sic] spot,” she wrote at the time. “I discovered it myself. Thought maybe it was my period [or] maybe it was muscle soreness from working out. But, eventually, this lump never went away.”
In March, the cancer spread to her liver, which put Thurston in stage 4.
“I know stage four can sound very scary, and it can be,” she said in 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.
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