Reality TV star Teddi Mellencamp shared a close-up image of her surgical scar from her battle with melanoma, in honor of World Cancer Day, “I’d like to remind you to get your skin checks ...

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“I’d like to remind you to get your skin checks scheduled,” Mellencamp, 43, wrote on Instagram next to the zoomed-in picture of the zig-zag incision on her back.