Fox News and ‘Gutfeld!’ Host Kat Timpf Reveals Cruel Backlash She Faces for Refusing To Become Stay-at-Home Mother

Fox News host Kat Timpf has candidly opened up about the grueling experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer just hours before she gave birth to her first child—while revealing the criticism she has faced from some "Gutfeld!" viewers over her decision to continue working even after becoming a mom.

Timpf, 36, has served as a co-host on Greg Gutfeld's wildly popular late night show since 2015, when it was titled "The Greg Gutfeld Show" and has won a legion of fans thanks to her witty commentary—which regularly sees her going against the conservative opinions of her fellow panelists.

However, the independent—who says she has never voted for President Donald Trump and is outspoken in her criticism of several of his policies—has also earned more than her fair share of "haters" who regularly bash her professional and personal choices.

Speaking to the New York Times in a wide-ranging interview, Timpf, who resides in New York with her husband, Cameron Friscia, and their 5-month old son, explained that her decision to discuss her breast cancer and motherhood journeys on air has perhaps received the most vitriol from online critics, some of whom have slammed her for choosing to continue working after becoming a mom.

"I’ve got a team of haters," she admitted. "They are mad that I exist—truly, that I exist."

"I am not ladylike," she added. "I’m a little rough around the edges. I think that a lot of women are told that they should be ladylike. And I’m successful, career-wise, not being ladylike. I also have a man who loves me, and a baby, not being ladylike."

After taking a break from the show to undergo a double mastectomy, Timpf returned to the airwaves to open up about the experience in her signature tongue-and-cheek way, telling the audience that she was both "boob-free" and "cancer-free."

Joking that she had been fortunate enough not to suffer stretch marks as a result of her pregnancy, Timpf quipped: "I did cut my t-ts off. So I am boob-free. I am cancer-free as well. They got everything. I’m very excited about it."

While many viewers applauded her candid approach to childbirth and breast cancer treatment, others hit out at her, with one screaming at her in an online rant that was paraphrased by The Times: "You don’t need a double mastectomy. Try ivermectin first. Go on maternity leave and spare us. Stay Home and Be a Mother!"

When Timpf recently appeared on Tim Pool's podcast, "The Culture War," she went head-to-head against author Myron Gaines, the man behind the book "Why Women Deserve Less," in a debate on feminism.

The new mom proudly stood up for women's rights, while Gaines mocked: "You know what's funny to me? I looked around. I didn't see a stove. So I don't know why this woman's here."

Timpf fired back by noting that she is not only "more successful" than Gaines, but that she is also in a loving relationship and has started a family.

"I enjoy being a member of society, I like being able to vote, I like being able to have a bank account, and it's so crazy that I'm also a mother at the same time, with a husband who loves me and is able to handle that I'm my own person."

Speaking to the Times, Timpf elaborated on this stance, explaining that she believes society's emphasis on a woman becoming a mother needs to shift to put an equal focus on the men who are stepping into fatherhood.

"There’s a lot of talk about how women should have kids, and not enough talk about men becoming the kind of partners that women would want to have kids with," she explained.

"The only reason I’m happy doing it is because my husband is amazing. Even if I wouldn’t have had cancer at the same time, it would have been really hard."

Her political opinions, which often jar with those espoused by other Fox News hosts, have also seen her face backlash from viewers—as it was when she criticized the suspension of fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who was taken off the air after making controversial comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"This isn’t about politics or personal feelings; it’s about the FCC engaging in content moderation—and I’m still the same free speech absolutist as I’ve always been, for all the reasons I’ve spent my career espousing," she wrote on X, sparking a torrent of abuse from other users.

"The FCC did not do anything but make a statement. Your mistake you think you should protect the rights of people who would not protect yours," one person wrote.

"The government didn’t do anything r----d, ABC made a business decision. Stop being such a pathetic coward," said another.

Yet Timpf insists that she will continue to speak to those who do support her, noting that, if discussing her cancer on "Gutfeld!" can help at least one other woman, she believes it will make it all worthwhile.

"If one woman is less embarrassed about her own mastectomy, that’s a win," she explained.

Away from the cameras, Timpf still has a rocky road ahead in her own recovery. While she is cancer-free, she is still due to undergo multiple surgeries to reconstruct her nipples.

"I’ve been through a lot, but I’m also still kind of going through it. ... Like, ‘I still don’t have nipples’ is probably the best way to describe it," she explained.

Having already been through a double mastectomy and a breast reconstruction, Timpf says she now has to deal with awkward questions about whether or not she is breastfeeding her son, whose name she has not publicly revealed.

"Something about breast cancer is—I don’t want to say embarrassing [but] people are like, 'Are you breastfeeding?' And you have to be like, 'I just cut my tits off,'" she explained.

"It’s a weird thing, which is part of the reason why I’ve decided to be so open about it."

Timpf first shared the news of her stage-zero breast cancer diagnosis on Feb. 25, telling fans that she would be undergoing a double mastectomy "as soon as possible" after the birth of her son.

She joked that she began meeting with doctors about the best treatment plan just hours after she delivered her baby: "By the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out."

In March, she told fans on Instagram that she had undergone a double mastectomy to treat the cancer, sharing an image of her feet hanging off a hospital bed with a gown draped over her.

Despite the severity of the procedure, Timpf retained her sense of humor, joking in the caption: "Post-op! They're honestly not much smaller than they were before I got pregnant."

Throughout her recovery—and her maternity leave—the TV star continued to share glimpses of her life on her social media accounts, posting images taken inside the New York City apartment that she shares with Friscia and their new baby boy.

Timpf, who is originally from Detroit, where she still owns a home, moved to the Big Apple in 2014, revealing in a 2024 Instagram post marking her 10th anniversary that she initially lived in an "absolute s---hole" in East Harlem, joking that it was a "ridiculous decision" to move.

"10 years ago today I made the ridiculous decision to pack up my things and move into an absolute s---hole (literally, there was often s--- in the stairwells of the building for some reason) apartment in East Harlem," she captioned her post.

"Things are far better for me now than I ever could have imagined back then, but I also never could have imagined some of what I’d have to go through along the way. It’s been a dream, and at times it’s been a nightmare, but I’m just so grateful for this beautifully bizarre life."

In the accompanying video, which showed her strolling around her lower Manhattan neighborhood, Timpf added: "10 years of me officially living in New York City. And it's just so remarkable to think about how I've been living here for 10 years and I'm still alive. How?

"It's been great, though," she concluded.