Isabella Strahan is covering the latest issue of Town & Country Magazine with her father, Michael Strahan. In the cover interview, the father/daughter duo talked about how Isabella’s health battle with medulloblastoma changed their lives.
“I feel like I’m 50 years old, with all this life experience,” the 20-year-old told the magazine in her interview. “I feel like I’ve grown in many ways. … I’m super grateful for walking and talking again. You don’t think of the things you can do until you live without them.”
The Good Morning America host and former NFL player shared that as a parent, “definitely tough and painful to watch his daughter’s health journey.
“It was like, ‘How soon is it going to come back?’ It was painful for her to get out of bed and move and do those things that are completely necessary for her to do,” he said. “As a parent, to see that was unsettling at times. But throughout this entire journey, Isabella has inspired and helped us all by how she has approached what she was facing. She has worked so hard, and with such amazing spirit. And she is still on a journey with her vision, balance and getting her weight back.”
Isabella was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of her freshman year at University of Southern California. However, one month after she reported that she was cancer-free, she is back on campus and loving it!
“I get to start my freshman year again, and I hope I’m there for longer than 50 days this time,” she told the outlet. She added, that she is “excited” to continue pursuing her studies in journalism and communications.
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The 52-year-old told the outlet that he too is happy to see his daughter return to USC and pick-up where she left off.
“I can’t wait for her to be back at college and live, to get back to what she was doing before and have fun, sororities, football games,” he said. “And most of all go to class and get great grades.”
Isabella Strahan was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, which is a type of brain cancer. Medulloblastoma, according to the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, accounts for about 20% of all childhood brain tumors.
Strahan shares Isabella, and her twin sister, Sophia, with ex-wife, Jean Muggli.
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