Bhad Bhabie’s Mom Barbara Bregoli Claps Back at Claims Rapper Is ‘Faking’ Cancer Diagnosis

Rapper Bhad Bhabie’s mother, Barbara Bregoli, confirmed her daughter’s cancer battle while shutting down rumors that the diagnosis was a hoax.

“How dare you?” Bregoli said in a Friday, November 8, Instagram video. “[To say] my daughter would lie about something like that?”

She continued, “I’ve had [breast cancer] twice. How dare you say my daughter’s faking this?”

Bhabie, 21, hinted at her diagnosis several hours earlier.

“I’m sorry my cancer medicine made me loose [sic] weight,” Bhabie, whose real name is Danielle Bregoli, wrote via her Instagram Story on Thursday, November 7. “I’m slowly gaining back. So, stop running [with] the worst narratives 💕.”

Bhabie recently received a handful of online criticism regarding her weight and allegedly appearing too thin.

“What happened to her? I don’t know abt her and I know her recently please someone explain to me,” one social media user wrote last month.

Another added, “I feel so bad you were looking so good now you seem really off and I’m worried.”

Bhabie gave birth to her first baby, daughter Kali Love, eight months earlier in March.

“The name doesn’t really have any specific meaning, it’s just his mom picked the middle name and then I had a list of five names I liked, and Kali was one of them,” Bhabie, who shares her daughter with Le Vaughn, told People at the time. “I thought that Love went good with Kali.”

Bhabie rose to fame in 2016 when mom Barbara asked Dr. Phil McGraw for parenting advice on his talk show in a segment called “I Want to Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried to Frame Me for a Crime.” In defense of her actions, Bhabie said, “Cash me outside,” which subsequently became a viral meme.

The next year, Bhabie launched a rap career and became the youngest artist to have three singles debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

“I’ve always loved music. When I first started, I didn’t really have the confidence and didn’t think I could actually do it,” Bhabie told Basic Magazine in an October 2023 profile. “I was working with a lot of cowriters, but now, I do most of the writing by myself. I’ve definitely evolved. I’ve always loved music and rapping, so making it a profession came naturally to me.”

She added, “I feel like a lot of my older music was kind of childish, but I was young —14 and 15 years old. I’m 18 years old now and I’m definitely going to show that I’m more mature when it comes to both my content and its delivery. … I’ve made a lot of my own music before, but it was mostly about what the label wanted. When you’re signed, they’re just thinking of hits and marketing, especially because I was so young. I didn’t have a lot of choices or a strong voice. But I’m older now. I understand the game now.”