Cobie Smulders is well-known for her role as Robin in the top comedy series "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS. But many of her fans might not be aware that she struggled with ovarian cancer at age 25 and had body issues.
The "Avengers" star and mother of two wrote about her deepest feelings in a revealing essay. She addressed how she has come to accept her health diagnosis and the scars that goes with it. She also dished advice for other women going through the same things as her.
"I've always wanted to have kids," Cobie Smulders wrote via Lenny. Uncertainty filled her with grief, however, after being told that about her ovarian cancer in 2008.
To get rid of the tumors growing in her abdomen, Cobie Smulders underwent surgery and went through a rigid diet change for four months. She also added yoga to her physical routine and went to different therapists and healers to help in her recovery.
She cites that she was lucky to have the means to do this things for her health but also notes that the options are there for every woman. "You can do the research and find many different ways to help your body heal itself," Cobie Smulders told her readers.
The "Jack Reacher" actress survived her cancer and bore two children in the process, with husband Taram Killam. Shaelyn was born in 2009 and another daughter was born in 2015, New York Daily News reports.
Cobie Smulders acknowledged that it has taken her time to learn to listen to the signals in her body and accept how it looks today. In the beginning, she wasn't even sure that her own husband would like to see her body with the surgical scars.
Now at 34-years-old, Cobie Smulders is grateful that her cancer scare didn't stop her from looking at the future with hope and positivity. "I don't know if I will ever be free of my cancer - or, to be more specific, free from the fear of my cancer's return," the star further wrote. But she is making a point not to dwell on the negativity.
