Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller Discusses Overcoming Prostate Cancer

In to the lead October, Ben Stiller revealed he had recently battled prostate cancer during a heartbreaking interview on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio produce an effect. Since in addition to he's kept a pretty low profile, but the Zoolander 2 star appeared going on for the Today accomplish's #NoShaveToday segment regarding Tuesday day to lift preparedness for the to come-detection exam that helped save his energy. "I was in fact privileged, my course of treatment was basically an operation and that was it," the 50-year-outdated actor told host Matt Lauer. "Anyone who has had cancer, you know you have to save upon checking upon it, but I'm really privileged." Ben described learning of his diagnosis two years ago as "surreal" and that he's now happily cancer-freeing after undergoing the surgery to have his prostate removed.

The procedure can occasionally arrive as soon as negative side effects for sexual undertaking, but Ben joked that he's take steps sociable. "When you'vis--vis confronted taking into consideration the ask of, 'Hey  make a get your hands on of you sore to conscious or get your hands on you suffering to create certain your sex animatronics is the best it can be?', I opted for wanting to profit rid of the cancer and also seeing what happens," he said of choosing the surgery. "And luckily, all's snobbish." The actor has been married to wife Christine Taylor past 2000 and is dad to the couple's two children, Ella and Quinlin.