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James Van Der Beek Reveals Private Health Battle After Being Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer
Kimberly Van Der Beek is supporting her hubby done a hard chapter.
After James Van Der Deek shared that helium has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, his woman of 14 years responded to the quality connected societal media.
Under the Dawson's Creek alum's Nov. 3 Instagram post, Kimberly wrote with a achromatic bosom emoji, "I emotion you baby."
She besides reposted a information astir Northern Cardinal birds connected her Instagram Stories that she tagged James successful and read, "The 'romantic' birds that mate for life, question together, sing earlier nesting, and provender each different effect beak-to-beak during courtship."
The Don't Trust The B---- successful Apartment 23 histrion archetypal shared the wellness update successful a connection to People Nov. 3. "I've been privately dealing with this diagnosis and person been taking steps to resoluteness it, with the enactment of my unthinkable family," helium explained. "There's crushed for optimism, and I'm feeling good."
Following the nationalist announcement, James apologized to his loved ones for being incapable to talk with them privately and alleged that it was going to beryllium leaked.
"Nothing astir this process has occurred connected my preferred timeline," helium wrote connected Instagram. "But we rotation with it, taking each astonishment arsenic a signpost, pointing america toward a greater destiny than we would person discovered without divine intervention."
"There's nary playbook for however [to] denote these things, but I'd planned connected talking astir it astatine magnitude with People mag astatine immoderate constituent soon… to rise consciousness and archer my communicative connected my ain terms," helium continued. "But that program had to beryllium altered aboriginal this greeting erstwhile I was informed that a tabloid was going to tally with the news."
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Meanwhile, James—who shares kids Olivia, 14; Joshua, 12; Annabel, 10; Emilia, 8; Gwendolyn, 6, and Jeremiah, 3, with Kimberly—has been focusing connected himself and his household during this time.
"I'm successful a bully spot and feeling strong," helium added. "It's been rather the initiation, and I'll archer you much erstwhile I'm ready."
The 47-year-old antecedently gushed implicit Kimberly's longstanding enactment and emphasized however that was particularly indispensable this year.
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"Nothing could person prepared america for this past twelvemonth - but possibly the erstwhile 12," helium wrote connected Instagram successful August. "Thank you for being the astir unthinkable partner. You've breached maine unfastened successful spots I didn't adjacent cognize were locked, and taught maine however to person much emotion than I thought possible."
"In the past, I consciousness similar you've ever acceptable the gait for our co-evolution," helium continued. "But this year, arsenic I've gone done my ain extremist transformation, you've tirelessly enactment successful the enactment and someway managed to lucifer it. Thank you for your courage, your strength, your vulnerability and your tenderness. I'm thrilled and grateful to get to bash this beingness with you."
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