Taylor Lautner’s Wife Shares Breast Cancer Scare that ‘Terrified’ Her

Taylor Lautner’s wife, Taylor, shared that she “had a few little health scares over the past few months” that she said “scared the hell out of her.”

In the latest episode of their podcast GripLautner, 27, said her first scare was a few months ago while she was in the shower, when “I felt a lump on my breast.”

“I kind of, like, stopped for a second and said, ‘Wait. What?’ And then I pressed it again and started to feel it. And there was a hard lump.”

“Very noticeable,” added her husband (32).

“I was literally just standing in the shower and completely frozen … I was literally thinking every thought in the world.”

“And, of course, you think about, you know, the worst,” he said Twilight answered the alum.

Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner in June 2024.

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She recounted how her family and friends were dealing with breast cancer and said she “immediately started bawling.”

“When you told me, I was terrified,” he said, “but I tried not to show you that I was terrified, because I don’t want you to be more worried than you were.”

She visited the breast center for an ultrasound and was told that “everything was clear”.

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“Tissue can only, like, hormonally move. It can change,” she explained. “It’s still there to this day and it hasn’t gone away.”

“It’s weird and scary because you can feel it’s only going in one direction,” added her husband. “It could have been there for who knows how long.”

“All clear. Ladies, take this as a reminder to do a self-examination in the shower,” she said. “Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family, but I’ve had a lot of cancer in my family, so I think that’s why I was really scared.”

“It’s also important for people to know – as hard as it is – to know that it’s very normal for this to happen,” he added.

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Her next health scare, she said, began when she “found herself in a very depressed state.”

“I didn’t want to get out of bed — period,” she said. “I didn’t want to work at all. I just scrolled aimlessly, aimlessly watched Netflix. I had really bad anxiety attacks.”

“I just lay in bed and I couldn’t move and I just cried. AND [Taylor] came and just, like, laid down with me.”

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She realized what was wrong—that she had stopped taking birth control pills after her regular doctor retired, leaving her without an immediate prescription.

“I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I’m literally, like, going off that birth control because my hormones have been working on that thing for ten years.’ ”

“I just swing like a pendulum,” she said. “Once I realized that, it made me feel a little better about it [but] there was nothing I could do about it except figure out how to get back on birth control.”

Verywell Health says: “Post-birth control syndrome (PBCS) is a term used by some alternative medicine providers for symptoms that can occur after stopping hormonal birth control. These often last for weeks, sometimes months, and include acne, missed periods, hair loss , and anxiety.”

She went to the doctor who recommended she get the breast center done, and she said “literally within minutes, I got an alert from CVS that the prescription was filled.”

“That was my one positive from my lump,” she said. “That could have helped solve the problem.”

“We’re bumpy,” she said, “but we’re healthy.”

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