{"id":1537,"date":"2024-07-28T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=346190"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:02:34","slug":"top-chefs-shirley-chung-faced-100-tongue-removal-as-cancer-treatment-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2024\/07\/28\/top-chefs-shirley-chung-faced-100-tongue-removal-as-cancer-treatment-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Chef’s Shirley Chung faced ‘100% tongue removal’ as cancer treatment option"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Top Chef alum Shirley Chung reveals she’s closing her restaurant Mrs Chi temporarily while she focuses on recovery during her cancer treatment. The chef and Bravo star takes to social media to share an update on her life this July.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bravo<\/a> fans were first introduced to Shirley Chung when she appeared as a Top Chef<\/a>: New Orleans contestant in 2013. She appeared in season 11 and later returned to season 14. Shirley competed on Top Chef: Charleston in 2016 and finished the show as a runner-up to Brooke Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Top Chef Shirley Chung’s cancer diagnosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Taking to Instagram<\/a> this July, Chef Shirley explains how she found out she had cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Since last year December, I had a series of dental issues, I bit my tongue severely; I fractured my tooth and had to extract it and get an implant\u2026 we thought it was because I am a heavy teeth grinder…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Top Chef contestant adds how she was “too busy to see an EMT specialist,” and by “the end of May, ulcers erupted” in her mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n