‘Jersey Shore’ star Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi diagnosed with cervical cancer

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, who first rose to fame as the star of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” shared that she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer.

“My results came back for my cone biopsy, and it was stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma,” the reality star said in a nearly eight-minute video. posted on her TikTok account on Friday. “It’s obviously not the news I was hoping for, but it’s not the worst news either, just because they discovered it so early. Thank God!”

In the video, Polizzi mentioned that she had been at a post-operative appointment for a cone biopsy (a surgical procedure that removes tissue from the cervix to test for early-stage cervical cancer or precancerous cells) that she had previously done.

She noted that she had been “struggling with abnormal Pap smears for three or four years now.” Earlier this year, Polizzi had shared TikTok that after a colposcopy and biopsy, her doctor “found cancer cells on top of my cervix.”

“That’s why I’m literally telling you guys to get your Pap smears. I’m 38 years old… and look at me right now,” she said. “And instead of just putting it off because I didn’t want to go and it hurt and I was scared, no, I was just going to do it. And it was there, the cancer is in there. But it’s only stage 1 and it’s curable.”

“So finish your appointments, bitches! I’m telling you,” she continued, noting that she would likely need a hysterectomy and possible removal of her lymph nodes. “2026 isn’t going the way I wanted it to, either [it] it could be worse.”