The rapper Fedez, husband of Chiara Ferragni, operated on a tumor in the pancreas

Last week, the rapper Fedez announced that he was going through a serious illness. He spoke of a “health problem” but did not specify what it was. Until this Thursday, when the 32-year-old Italian musician, also known for being the husband of the influencer and businesswoman Chiara Ferragni, has announced that she has had a tumor in her pancreas that has had to be operated on.

“Last week I found out that I have a rare neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. Of those that, if they are not caught on time, are not a pleasant company inside your body“, he has written Fedez on his Instagram profile, where he has 13.6 million followers. “For that reason I had to undergo surgery that lasted six hours to remove a part of the pancreas (including the tumor). Two days after surgery, I am fine and can’t wait to go home to my children. I will still be late ”, he stated along with a series of photographs where he is seen in the hospital, accompanied by his wife, in which he shows the scar or where some drawings of the surgery he has undergone are also seen.

From what both the rapper and his wife have told, the intervention took place at the beginning of the week and the recovery is being relatively fast, more so for an operation of this magnitude. “Tuesday’s surgery went well and he is recovering,” Ferragni writes on Instagram in a photo in which she hugs her husband in the hospital bed. “We hope this is just a bad memory that taught us, once again, the importance of enjoying life fully and every day.” The businesswoman too wanted to explain that In the time between the diagnosis and the operation, both were absent from social networks to spend time together as a couple and with their children. So, she says, she was “more afraid than ever” that something bad could happen to them.

A fedez has been discovered a pancreatic tumor of which it is unknown at the moment if it is malignant or benign, and which has been classified as neuroendocrine, depending on the type of cells that make it up. “There are squamous cells, adenocarcinomas, neuroendocrine… The name depends on the type of cell and that can be known by an imaging test, they probably knew it before operating,” explains Dr. Ana Belén Bustos, a surgeon at the Úbeda hospital , Jaén, who also realizes that the surgery to which the musician has undergone is “one of the most complex that exists, with a lot of risk”. It is a so-called duodenopancreatectomy, where the head of the pancreas is removed and also an area of ​​the duodenum that empties into it.

The musician already explained last week that “an important path” awaited him to be able to overcome his health problems. “I have to give meaning to this parenthesis of my life,” added the author of musical successes such as beautiful story or I will pay, who is also a judge of the Italian edition of the television program X Factor and that last year he was second in the race to represent his country in Eurovision; Finally Maneskin band wonwho also won the contest.

“The love of my life, Fedez, needs extra support these days,” the Italian businesswoman wrote to her more than 26 million followers last week. “We love you more than ever, my love. You will get well soon, always surrounded by the love of all your family, friends and all the people who love you so much, “she said. The couple married in Sicily in 2018, in which it was one of the great weddings of the year before hundreds of guests. She, in a dress exclusively designed by Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, and he, in Versace, accompanied by their son Leo (then a month-old baby; now he has just turned four) broadcast the celebrations, various and that lasted two days under the label #TheFerragnez. In addition to Leo, the couple welcomed their daughter Vittoria a year ago.

Chiara Ferragni became known thanks to the blog The Blonde Salad, in which he began hanging his outfits. Little by little he created a empire that employs a hundred people and whose income is estimated in recent years at more than 12 million euros thanks to its own clothing brand and its collaborations with other firms. He has launched a documentary called unposted and, last December, a series on Amazon Prime Video where they tell their family life, called The Ferragnezthe name by which the couple is commonly known.