Bhad Bhabie shares devastating cancer update and cuddles daughter after 'bad news'
bhad bhabie, 22, said she received “bad news” from her doctor and posted an emotional update on Saturday. Hours later she uploaded a home video cuddling her daughter, offering a private moment amid a public health battle.
Saturday post and the message
The rapper wrote on Saturday, “Bad news from my doctor yesterday, god has the last say so not my cancer. ” She did not elaborate on the details of her diagnosis in that post.
Video cuddling daughter Kali
Earlier on the same day, she uploaded an Instagram Story video in which she cuddled daughter Kali Love, 22 months, in a bed while wearing matching pajama sets and colorful pimple patches. In the footage, Bhad Bhabie and Kali pretended to growl at one another during a FaceTime call with an unidentified friend. At one point Kali put her hand over the camera, and Bhad Bhabie said, “Oh, she pushed you, ” which made her little girl laugh.
How and when diagnosis became public
Bhabie first announced her cancer diagnosis in November 2024 after fans criticized her thin appearance. At that time she posted: “I’m sorry my cancer medicine made me loose [sic] weight. I’m slowly gaining back. So, stop running [with] the worst narratives 💕. ” She has not revealed the type of cancer she has been diagnosed with.
Family remarks and paparazzo encounter
A family source said she did have cancer and was being treated by doctors. When approached by a paparazzo outside Los Angeles International Airport after that initial announcement, she said she was “not prepared” for the run-in but was otherwise doing “OK. ” Her mother, Barbara Bregoli, denied claims that her daughter was faking the illness, saying, “How dare you? [To say] my daughter would lie about something like that?” and noting she has had [breast cancer] twice.
Backlash from online critics
The rapper’s “bad news” post ignited a wave of harsh backlash online. One critic wrote, “Stop being an awful person maybe he wouldn't do this to you, ” while another blasted, “God gave you that cancer because of how you live your life, and he never makes mistakes, God is good all the time. ” A third posted, “Surely it didn't come from the lifetime of bhad decisions you've made?” and a fourth commented, “All of a sudden it's God after all the content you did that's against his teachings is crazy. ”
Career and motherhood timeline
The musician first rose to fame in 2016 after appearing on a televised segment titled “I Want to Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried to Frame Me for a Crime. ” She famously said at the time, “Catch me outside, that’s what I always do and they never catch me, ” and added, “‘Ain’t nobody gonna catch me. Cash me outside, how ‘bout dat. ” She was later nicknamed the “Cash Me Outside Girl” before launching her rap career.
Reflecting on her work in a 2023 interview, she said she had “always loved music, ” that when she first started she “didn’t really have the confidence and didn’t think I could actually do it, ” and that she had worked with “a lot of cowriters, but now, I do most of the writing by myself. ” She added that a lot of her older music felt “kind of childish” because she was “14 and 15 years old, ” and said, “I’m 18 years old now and I’m definitely going to show that I’m more mature when it comes to both my content and its delivery. ” She also spoke about industry pressures when signed, saying labels were “just thinking of hits and marketing, especially because I was so young, ” and that now she “understand[s] the game now. ”
