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Beth Chapman’s family is growing!
The 51-year-oldDog the Bounty Hunterstar, and wife of Duane “Dog” Chapman, announced on Friday that she had become a great-grandmother for the first time.
“It just gets better,” she added.
Leland is the son of Dog and his first wife, La Fonda Sue Honeycutt.
Just days earlier, Beth shared a smiling selfie on Instagram with multiple hashtag messages, including“stay humble” and “pray.”
Her note came asEntertainment Tonightreported that she has begunchemotherapy treatments for throat cancer. Beth appeared to address that in two other hashtags on her post: “cancer sucks” and “it’s only hair.”
Beth was firstdiagnosed with stage II throat cancerin September 2017 — cancer that, two months later, she and Dog told fanshad been completely removed. Unfortunately, the cancer returned the following year, with Beth rushing to the hospital in Los Angeles on Nov. 26 for an emergency surgery to clear a throat blockage that was obstructing her airways.
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The Chapmanswedin 2006 after 16 years together. Their family starred on the A&E reality series for eight seasons until 2012. Back in November 2017, A&E also aired a two-hour special,Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives, documenting Beth’s cancer journey.
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Speaking to PEOPLE after Beth’s initial diagnosis in 2017, Dog vowed to support Beth no matter what.
“When we made a pledge many years ago, I said I’d love her in sickness and in health until death do us part,” he said. “And that truth has really, really come alive in my mind. And I have to stand on that; I gave her an oath that I would love her forever. And thank God it’s not till death do us part at this point.”
source: people.com
