United Kingdom, April 29 -- Teddi Mellencamp was reduced to tears when she first saw the scars from her cancer surgery.

The 43-year-old star was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma that spread to her brain and lungs and admits she was emotional when she was shown the results of the surgery that has aided her recovery.

Sharing photos of her surgery scars, Teddi captioned the Instagram post: "It's been 76 days since I went to the ER with unbearable headaches and quickly found out I had multiple stage 4 tumors the 'size of plums' in my brain and lungs. Melanoma had metastasized there and been there for '6 months to a year' and we had no clue.

"Since that day, I have had multiple surgeries, had rage from the steroids, felt very sick, laughed ...