Michael Strahan’s daughter celebrated 19th birthday in hospital 1 day after emergency surgery for brain cancer

Isabella Strahan, daughter of TV personality and former Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, gave an inside look into her 19th birthday, which she marked one day after undergoing emergency surgery for brain cancer in October 2023.In a vlog post, which was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, the college freshman revealed that she “celebrated” her birthday by having the cancerous tumor removed on Oct 27. “So, Isabella is going into surgery now,” a woman — presumably her mother, Jean Muggli — says, showing Isabella lying on a hospital bed as a staffer works nearby.

The camera then rotates to show several pink balloons and Isabella’s twin, Sophia, messing with something off-camera. The vlog then cuts to several members of her family and friends singing “Happy Birthday,” as her famous dad stands by the doorway and claps.Isabella’s loved ones also treated Isabella to a red velvet cake, flowers and unicorn balloons.

Isabella spoke out for the first time about her condition with medulloblastoma — a common cancerous brain tumor often found in children — during a “Good Morning America” interview Thursday after “two months of keeping it quiet.” During the sit-down with cancer survivor Robin Roberts, the University of Southern California freshman said she “didn’t notice anything was off ’til probably like Oct.

1.”“That’s when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea, couldn’t walk straight,” she explained, noting she called her family once she started “throwing up blood.”After consulting with doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, she was told that she had a “fast-growing, four-centimeter tumor” that was the size of a golf ball.