Teddi Mellencamp Confirms New Romance Amid Most cancers Battle

Teddi Mellencamp opened up concerning the new man in her life.

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 43, mentioned her love life through the Tuesday, June 3, episode of her “Two Ts In a Pod” podcast, cohosted by Actual Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Decide.

Mellencamp, who’s battling most cancers, started by discussing images that have been lately taken of her and a thriller man. The images have been printed by a number of retailers earlier on Tuesday, with the fact star acknowledging on the podcast that “some photos are going to come back out” earlier than launching into particulars.

“I’m relationship anyone,” she confirmed. “He’s very type to me, he’s taking excellent care of me. He’s good … he’s not married, he doesn’t have any children. However he’s additionally a personal particular person.”

Mellencamp then defined that a part of her choice to hide the person’s identify got here all the way down to his privateness values. “I requested him, like, ‘Do I even say your identify?’ and he’s, like, it’s actually no matter you need to do, like, ‘I do know you’re a public particular person.’”

She then famous that when the pair first met, her new flame claimed to not know of Mellencamp’s public profile.

Within the images, printed by retailers together with Web page Six, the person was seen wrapping his arms round Mellencamp as she smiled on the digicam and held onto one in every of his arms.

The brand new romance comes amid Mellencamp’s ongoing most cancers battle. After affected by melanoma on and off since 2022, she revealed in February that she has stage 4 melanoma after it metastasized to her lungs and mind.

February’s announcement got here lower than three months after Mellencamp revealed she was divorcing estranged husband Edwin Arroyave after a 13-year marriage. The pair share three kids: daughters, Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, in addition to son, Cruz, 10.

Regardless of Mellencamp’s break up from Arroyave, 48, the pair have remained shut as they coparent their kids. The entrepreneur shared by way of Instagram on February 13 that his spouse was in his prayers and included a photograph of himself standing at Mellencamp’s hospital mattress.

As for Mellencamp’s well being, she shared an emotional replace with followers by way of Instagram on Could 13. Within the replace, she received actual about regrowing her hair following most cancers therapy.

“A number of messages asking, ‘Why don’t you shave your entire head?’” she captioned a put up that confirmed her hair rising in. “Throughout radiation I misplaced huge patches of hair; these spots aren’t rising hair but. That is what it seems to be like when the opposite hair grows out. So I shave these elements that develop each couple of weeks. I can’t do it on daily basis 🤣.”

She added that she isn’t bothered by followers asking her about her hair, “as a result of [she’s] grateful that the majority days [she’s] feeling higher.”