United Kingdom, April 7 -- Teddi Mellencamp's children have given her "perspective".

The 43-year-old star is currently in the midst of battling stage 4 cancer, but Teddi admits that her kids have given her a sense of perspective over recent weeks.

The TV star - who has Slate, 12, Cruz, ten, and Dove, five, with her estranged husband Edwin Arroyave - said on her Instagram Story: "Sometimes kids say things that really put things into perspective."

Teddi has a visible scar on her head after recently undergoing surgery on her brain - but her son has suggested that she needn't worry about it.

Teddi continued: "Yesterday Cruz said, 'Why are you worried about that? You've got enough rizz for that.'

"True, I mean I didn't know what rizz was,...