Richard Simmons Says He Has Skin Cancer: ‘Strange Looking Bump’

Fitness icon Richard Simmons on Tuesday revealed that he’s been diagnosed with a common form of skin cancer.

The 75-year-old said he went to a dermatologist after becoming concerned about a “strange looking bump” under his right eye and that tests confirmed the diagnosis. Simmons’ announcement about his illness on his Facebook page came the day after he’d alarmed fans with a post in which he’d said he is “dying,” only to later clarify that his message had been intended as a call to embrace life and that he is not, in fact, terminally ill.

In his Tuesday post, Simmons wrote that he’d called his dermatologist after the bump below his eye hadn’t been cleared up by an over-the-counter treatment. “I sat in his chair and he looked at it through a magnifying mirror,” Simmons wrote. “He told me he would have to scrape it and put it under the microscope. Now I am getting a little bit nervous. He comes back about 20 minutes later and says the C word. You have cancer.”

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