Actress Cobie Smulders reveals she had cancer

Risingbd Desk: How I Met Your Mother actress Cobie Smulders revealed publicly for the first time that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 25-year-old.

“I had tumors on both ovaries and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues,” the actress, who can be seen in The Avengers: Age of Ultron next month,” the 33-year-old actress made the revelation in an interview for Women`s Health.

"I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues," Cobie said.

For the next couple of years, she underwent many surgeries to remove the cancerous tissue in her body, which then left her with one third of an ovary.

Being told by doctors who treated her that she would never be able to get pregnant naturally, Cobie in fact has two children with her actor husband Taran Killam whom she married in 2012.

"I don`t think I`ll ever feel like I`m cancer-free. Now that I`m five years out, I`m trying to think of it as a positive thing and what can I learn from it. And if I can create more awareness, I`ll do it," she said.

Smulders said she hopes to help create awareness about ovarian cancer.

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