United Kingdom, Feb. 20 -- Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi has been diagnosed with stage one cervical cancer.

The 38-year-old Jersey Shore star took to TikTok to share her cancer diagnosis and urge her followers to get their Pap smears, a routine screening procedure that collects cells from the cervix to examine them for cancer or precancerous cell changes.

She said: "Obviously not the news that I was hoping for. But also not the worst news, just because they caught it so early.

"That's why I'm literally telling you guys to get your Pap smears done. I'm 38 years old. I've been struggling with abnormal Pap smears for like, three, four years now. And now look at me, and instead of just, like, putting it off because I didn't want to go, and it hu...