Danielle Fishel’s husband, Jensen Karp, showed love to the actress after she publicly revealed her breast cancer diagnosis.
Karp, 44, reacted to Fishel’s health announcement with a sweet message on his Instagram Story Monday.
“I’m so proud of @daniellefishel for using her platform to raise awareness,” the film producer wrote.
“We can’t miss appointments and we need to get checked,” he continued.
Karp added about his wife, “She’s the strongest person I’ve ever met. She’s got this.”
Fishel, 43, and Karp have been married since 2018. They have two sons together, Adler, 5, and Keaton, 2.
The “Boy Meets World” alumna announced that she was diagnosed with a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) on Monday’s episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast.
“It is very, very, very early,” she said. “It’s technically stage zero. To be specific, I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion. And I’m going to be fine. I’m having surgery to remove it. I’m going to be on some follow-up treatment. I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days.”
Fishel said she told Karp and the rest of her family that she had breast cancer, and initially she wasn’t going to reveal her diagnosis to the world.
“And then what I realized is the more people I talk to, the more people had their own experiences, either themselves being diagnosed with cancer or a family member who’s been diagnosed with cancer,” she explained.
The director also emphasized the importance of getting a mammogram.
“The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment,” Fishel said. “And the fact that I am good about going to my doctor’s appointments, when truthfully, it would be so much easier with as busy as I am, to say, ‘I don’t have time for that.’”
“Instead,” Fishel added, “I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s time. Got to make that appointment.’ And they found it so, so, so early that I’m going to be fine.”
Fishel explained that she has “some big decisions” ahead of her regarding her cancer battle.
“I don’t have all the answers yet,” she said. “I still have doctors I need to meet with, oncologists, radiation specialists, hormone therapists, all kinds of stuff that I have still in front of me to decide.”
