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Isabella Strahan—the daughter of former couple Michael Strahan and Jean Muggli—said she “didn’t notice anything was off” about her health until early October 2023, when she started experiencing headaches and nausea.
After throwing up blood one day, she got a full checkup and MRI scan at the urging of her dad. The results showed medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor found in children.
Later that month, she underwent brain surgery to remove the mass.
Following her interview, Isabella shared she had finished her round of radiation therapy.
“I’m very excited to finally be done,” she said in a Jan. 16 YouTube video. “It’s been a long six weeks and I’m very happy to finally heal my head after all of this because the side effects and everything get to you.”
Following radiation therapy, Isabella began undergoing chemotherapy to treat her cancer.
“My whole mouth feels like I got one giant root canal,” she shared in a Feb. 16 vlog. “Every single tooth, just ripped out and not even surgically put back in. My jaw hurts, the bottom of my tongue hurts. It hurts when I gulp water.”
Still, the teen kept her spirits up, joking in a video posted a week later that her hair is “insufficient now.”
“Besides being bald,” she said, “it doesn’t bring me pain mentally.”
Though Isabella was initially scheduled to undergo her second round of chemotherapy in early March, she underwent emergency surgery on her skull—during which doctors drained out extra fluid from her head and replaced a bone they had originally cut out with a titanium plate—which pushed her chemo back by weeks.
“I’m in so much pain,” she said in a March 6 vlog. “My face is extremely puffy, and this sucks. I was in so much pain earlier. I was, like, screaming.”
Isabella’s dad Michael arranged for her favorite singer Bryson Tiller to stop by their New York City home as a pick-me-up amid her treatments.
“You haven’t moved this much in months!” Michael joked to his daughter in her vlog of the visit. “You are fangirling right now.”
