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Does Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith Have Cancer? See the Reality Star’s Health Updates
Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith shared a very vulnerable moment during the show’s sixth season when she revealed she underwent a biopsy after seeing “questionable things” during a health scan. The Los Angeles-based realtor later admitted that she may have had a cancerous mass in her uterus, leaving viewers concerned for her health. Keep reading to get details about Amanza’s health scare and find out if she has cancer.
What Was Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith’s Health Scare?
After talking about her trip to the doctor during Selling Sunset season 6 episode 4, Amanza confided in costar Mary Fitzgerald about her concerning ultrasound appointment.
“When they did the ultrasound, my uterus on the screen looked … There’s a lot of stuff there and I don’t know what it is. It doesn’t look good. There’s a wide array of things that it could be, and then the one thing that we pray and hope that it’s not,” the reality star said, alluding to cancer.
The Indiana native went on to admit that she “couldn’t deal” with the possible life-changing outcome and “avoided” getting the additional tests for three months, noting that it was a decision she “wasn’t proud of.”
“I couldn’t deal with it and just completely avoided it for three months. I most recently went, and I finally had [the blood tests] … but I just realized, like, holy s–t, my kids — I’m all they have,” Amanza continued, talking about her daughter Noah and son Braker. “And then it just triggered something inside of me that, like, I realized I’m still not okay.”
Does Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith Have Cancer?
Although viewers were left on a cliffhanger regarding Amanza’s health during the show, the Netflix star gave fans a miraculous update via Instagram and shared that she is cancer free!
“The results of my biopsy were benign! I will continue to be grateful for my health, and even more so now than ever! You realize that if it is in fact, in poor, standing, everything else falls secondary,” she captioned her May 22 post. “I have lost many loved ones to cancer. The most recent one was my adoptive father and you all see that in season six. Maybe I didn’t say how he passed but that was how and it is a very sensitive subject … Big love to you all. Thank you for the support.”
Amanza’s Selling Sunset castmates Nicole Young, Chelsea Lazkani, Heather Rae El Moussa and Selling the OC’s Kayla Cardona rallied around her in the comments section, showing their unwavering support of the fantastic health update.
Nicole commented, “Beautiful inside and out! And one amazing mother! Love you to the moon and back.”
What Other Health Scares Has Amanza Had?
In June 2023, Amanza offered fans an in-depth look into her latest health scare, “I thought that I had a bulging disk or a slipped disc or something wrong with my lower back that was regular. I laid in pain in my house for several days. I cried. I took Tylenol. I went to urgent care. I didn’t know what it was but after over a month of excruciating pain I finally started to get some answers,” she began to explain in an Instagram post, adding that she later went to Cedar Sinai hospital. “I was admitted and they immediately started testing me for things in my blood. Come to find out I had an infection in my blood that had caused, a great deal of infection to be spread to the bones of my spine and it’s called osteomyelitis.”
Amanza added that she was quickly put on antibiotics, but her medical team was under the impression that she had a tumor. “Here I am day 10 and I’m making this message a bit quickly because I’m about to go into surgery to have portions of the infection removed from my spine that weren’t getting any better by the anabiotic’s that I’ve been getting for 10 days [sic],” she continued.
Several days later, she posted another updated for fans, detailing that she was about to go in for a second round of surgery. “Part of my spine has completely deteriorated due to the infection and I’ll be getting a new vertebrae and a couple of screws and rods in my spine to replace what has been eaten away from the bacteria,” she wrote.
On June 22, Amanza shared an emotional update via Instagram saying, “I’m ready to go home. I’m ready to heal from my house.”
“Getting stronger and can walk with a walker to the restroom and around the room a bit when my pain meds are allowing me to do so,” she shared alongside a video update on June 25. “Once we just get this pain under control I can possibly go home. Pray that this last scan is clear and this girl can possibly go home soon. Day 23 and ready to get out of here.”
Amanza was finally able to go home on Tuesday, July 4, after spending 31 days in the hospital.
“Learning how to use my new antibiotic machine that will be permanently hooked to me 24/7 for the next couple weeks,” she shared, adding the hashtag, “On the mend.”
