'Stumptown' star Cobie Smulders: 'Going through cancer has made me a better person' (2024)
BEVERLY HILLS– Cobie Smulders is embracing a topic people often avoid: cancer.
The "How I Met Your Mother" and "Avengers" actress stars in newABC detective series, "Stumptown,"premiering Wednesday (10 EDT/PDT), that's one of USA TODAY's top fall TV picks.Last month, shewas asked how the "really tough times" she had experienced influenced her acting.
"I think you're talking about cancer. We're going to getreal right now. I love it.… Let's do this," says Smulders, who revealed in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was just 25 years-old,during the third season of "HIMYM"(which ran from 2005 to 2014).
Smulders told Women's Health magazine in 2015 that she had tumors on both of her ovaries and that it had spread to her lymph nodes and surrounding tissue. It took multiple surgeries over two years to remove the cancerous tissue.
"I think that going through (cancer)has made me a better person, a better mother, certainly able to tap into things in terms of creating characters," Smulderssays."But I think the general overall gift, if cancer can give you a gift, is being grateful for being here."
"And being able to have gone through something like that,… when other things bubble up that are trying, you go, 'Well, it wasn't that. I'm not in that hospital anymore,'" she adds. "So, I am now in a grateful place with it."
Asked if surviving cancer made her stronger, Smulders, the mother of two daughterswith husbandTaran Killam of ABC's "Single Parents," says,"I'm a survivor– and grateful for that. I will say it has brought me to this place of more strengths."
In "Stumptown," based on a graphic-novel series set in Portland, Ore., Smulders plays Dex Parios, a smart, assertive private investigator with a messy love life and gambling issues who relies on strong military intelligence skills from her service in Afghanistan. Shealso suffers from PTSD.
She saysthe role is much different from her "HIMYM" character, Robin Scherbatsky, but that she didn't take it for that reason.
"You want to chosesomething you’re never going to be bored with …a characteryou want to live with for a while. I just fell in love with this character. There’s certainly aspects of Scherbatsky in there," she says, while acknowledging the format and shooting style vary greatly from "HIMYM.""It wasmore about finding something (that)would always be challenging and fun to play rather than finding something that's a polar opposite."
Smulders, a mother of two, had to juggle undergoing cancer treatment and keeping up with her work schedule. She was diagnosed in 2008 and around that time she worked on “The Slammin' Salmon.” Following treatment, Smulders said she was given a “clean bill of health.”
Smulders, 33, said the cancer happened when she was 25 during season 3 of "How I Met Your Mother." "I had tumors on both ovaries and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues," she told the magazine.
She won her fight with cancer and hopes that anyone else battling the terrible disease will as well. Today she has two beautiful baby girls, something she was fearful would never happen. Although she considers herself lucky, she says that she will always live with the fear that the cancer could return.
Cobie Smulders has been open about her emotional journey to becoming a mom to her two kids: daughters Shaelyn and Janita. The How I Met Your Mother star was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005 at 25 years old and was told she might not be able to conceive children.
For more than 10 years, Cobie has been in remission from cancer. And now, she's set her sights on spreading ovarian cancer awareness and empowering other women to take charge of their health.
The 37-year-old actress has been in remission since being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, when she was starring in “How I Met Your Mother.” She had multiple surgeries and chose not to reveal her struggle until 2015.
During season five, the actor who played Robin and the actor who played Lily were both pregnant, but their characters were not. So the props team just kept hiding their growing bellies behind large props and handbags. "We have the biggest purses of any show on the air," director Pamela Fryman told the Chicago Tribune.
“Twenty-five is generally outside the typical age of most ovarian cancers, but there are certain types of ovarian cancers that can occur at an early age,” Nimesh Nagarsheth, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, tells SELF.
'Yes,' Cobie commented, along with a flame, applause, and heart emoji. The duo appear to have remained friends after starring together on the hit comedy series, which ended after nine seasons back in 2014.
As a star of How I Met Your Mother, Cobie Smulders knows a thing or two about fictional long-winded romance stories — but her relationship with husband Taran Killam has a sweet story of its own. After meeting at a birthday party in 2005, the couple got married seven years later in 2012.
Let's do this," says Smulders, who revealed in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was just 25 years-old, during the third season of "HIMYM" (which ran from 2005 to 2014).
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