--- title: Cobie Smulders: I Was Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer at Age 25 description: "I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free," she tells Women's Health magazine. canonical: https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-24T02:10:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:38:27.891Z article:section: Health og:title: Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis at Age 25 og:description: "I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free" og:url: https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3fea4eeec35dae0/6987ecaee53abac8ad4db7d5/cobie-smulders.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cobie Smulders attends the Chanel Dinner during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Balthazar on April 20, 2015 in New York City. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis at Age 25 twitter:description: "I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3fea4eeec35dae0/6987ecaee53abac8ad4db7d5/cobie-smulders.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis at Age 25  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Apr 24, 2015 2:10 AM UTC  Cobie Smulders attends the Chanel Dinner during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Balthazar on April 20, 2015 in New York City. Cobie Smulders attends the Chanel Dinner during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Balthazar on April 20, 2015 in New York City.Jamie McCarth—Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Apr 24, 2015 2:10 AM UTC _How I Met Your Mother_ actress Cobie Smulders [revealed publicly](http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/cobie-smulders-ovarian-cancer) for the first time that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 25\. in the [May issue of _Women’s Health_](http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/cobie-smulders-ovarian-cancer). “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, says in an interview with _Women’s Health_. Diagnosed during the third season of the hit CBS sitcom, Smulders, 33, says she had multiple surgeries across two years instead of chemotherapy and radiation because of the location of the cancerous tissue on her body. And even though doctors said she wouldn’t be able to naturally conceive, Smulders did become pregnant with daughter Shaelyn, now 5, and welcomed another son with husband and _Saturday Night Live_ star Taran Killam earlier this year. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel like I’m cancer-free,” Smulders says. “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.” \[[_Women’s Health_](http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/cobie-smulders-ovarian-cancer)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/"},"headline":"Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis at Age 25","datePublished":"2015-04-24T02:10:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:38:27.891Z","description":"\"I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free\"","url":"https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/","keywords":["celebrities","Cancer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3fea4eeec35dae0/6987ecaee53abac8ad4db7d5/cobie-smulders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3fea4eeec35dae0/6987ecaee53abac8ad4db7d5/cobie-smulders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cobie Smulders attends the Chanel Dinner during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Balthazar on April 20, 2015 in New York City.","caption":"Cobie Smulders attends the Chanel Dinner during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Balthazar on April 20, 2015 in New York City.","creditText":"Jamie McCarth—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/","name":"Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis at Age 25"}}]}] ```