But then she discovered theater, and she left her dancing days behind her.
The two got married in 1982, and had one son together, Josh Farr.
By 2008, however, their marriage was on the rocks and they filed for divorce.
Despite keeping the details very private, Farr later admitted the divorce was hard on her.
Her cancer was first discovered when she went for her annual mammogram but it wasn’t serious.
In 2014, doctors discovered another tumor, this time, the cancer had already spread.
“I was in shock,” she later toldSurvivorNet.
“I wasn’t expecting that, well nobody is.
There’s no history of it in my family.”
Farr immediately had surgery, and again, she seemed to get off lightly.
“I was signed off by the medical oncologist saying, ‘You’re done.
Off you go,” Farr toldPeople.
But in 2015, another mammogram alerted doctors to yet another tumor.
Fortunately for Farr, this tumor, like the first, was precancerous.
She went into remission after her third surgery and has remained healthy so far.
“That’s part of the story where I trusted and I didn’t dig deeply enough.
Speaking to People, Farr admitted that the phone call from the radiologist left her pretty shaken.
She was behind schedule on her radiation therapy, and it put her at a disadvantage.
“I felt absolute fury that someone could be so flippantly wrong.
I could have been dead,” she said.
Farr eventually filed a complaint against the doctor in question, who retired shortly after.
“What was in my control was to say, ‘Wait, there should be other options.
What are those other options?’
And to really take more control,” she said.
Farr admitted that part of not getting more informed about her condition had to do with her own fear.
You will be taking control which is so empowering,” she said.
“There were just so many repercussions of choosing to push through without telling everybody,” she said.
She explained that Mimi had to get emergency euthanasia after she took a turn for the worse.
She admitted that Mimi had been unwell for quite some time but always managed to pull through.
In 2021, Farr shared another scary update on one of her dogs, Suki, with fans onInstagram.
“This morning Suki didn’t smile and wiggle and wag her tail.
She stayed curled up on her bed, lethargic-looking at me for help.
She wouldn’t eat or drink,” Farr wrote.
“I’m hoping her fever breaks and I can get her home by midnight.
I’m a total blubbering wreck,” she wrote.
Luckily, Suki healed up just fine, and Farr regularlyposts updateson their adventures together.
“It was becoming boring, and I don’t want to be bored,” she said.
It seems this feeling only grew as time went on.
“I’ve been doing the show for years and I have loved doing it.
But in the last season, which we did in Canada, it just felt too much like work.
It felt very stale.
It’s a very formulaic show,” she told Vulture.
Speaking toPeople, Farr admitted that her previous cancer diagnosis also played a part in her decision.
She simply realized that life was too short to keep doing something she’s outgrown.
“It was becoming too easy …
I was in a rut.
It’s been so many years.
