JournalistKatie Couricis no stranger to receiving scary health news.
“He had me at hello,” she said.
The couple got married in June 2014.

Now Couric is sharing her own devastating health diagnosis.
Katie Couric has been diagnosed with breast cancer
In an essay entitled “Why NOT Me?”
The journalist shared that she didn’t want her daughters to lose another parent.

She and her doctor quickly came up with a plan.
She did, however, undergo radiation treatments from September 7 to 27 (viaNBC News).