Bizzy Smith’s ‘Amazing Race’ Scan Revealed Breast Cancer: ‘saved My Life’

Much The Amazing Race Contestants can say their time on the show changed their lives, but the Season 36 contestant Bizzy Smith I can also say that it saved her.

Bizzy, 37, who took part in the CBS series with her friend and fellow firefighter Sunny powderDuring a routine physical exam that all contestants underwent before appearing on the show, she discovered that she had lumps in her breast.

“My doctor said, ‘You have a few lumps in your left breast,'” Bizzy exclusively recalled Us weekly on Thursday, April 25, a day after she and Sunny, 41, were eliminated from the show. She writes it well The Amazing Race for her early diagnosis because otherwise she “wouldn’t have gotten a physical exam out of the blue.”

“I think The Amazing Race saved my life,” she said. “When I got home, that was the tipping point for me to investigate: ‘Oh yeah, that’s weird that I haven’t breastfed in over a year and I still have these lumps.’ …So, yeah, I think so Amazing race The physical exam saved my life.”

Although the scan raised alarm bells for Bizzy, it wasn’t until after filming of season 36 was completed that she received an actual diagnosis.

“It took a while to get diagnosed, and actually the diagnosis was made the same week that our season was delayed,” she said, referring to the fact that Season 35 of TAR aired first, although filming didn’t take place until after season 36. “So they said, ‘This isn’t your season.’ The Amazing Race comes and you have breast cancer.’”

Bizzy has since undergone a double mastectomy and is now cancer free.

“I use this platform to educate younger women about breast cancer since I was only 36 years old and trying to get a breast cancer diagnosis,” she said. “I ended up getting an MRI and that was the only reason I found out. And then I had a really good prognosis.”

Now that Bizzy has beaten breast cancer, she wants to return for an all-stars season of TAR.

“We are making our offer [an] All-Stars season,” she said. “I beat breast cancer, so we will run this race with a new life.”

Bizzy has already taken steps to overcome her and Sunny’s biggest weakness in the game: navigation.

“I’m taking a navigation course,” she shared.

Sunny and Bizzy planned to practice their navigation skills before appearing on Season 36, but they never got around to it.

“We went to Chicago to renew my passport and since we wanted to make navigation a challenge, we ended up using GPS,” Sunny admitted Us with a laugh.

Although getting lost was a recurring problem for the pair throughout the season, they overcame most challenges once they found them – with one notable exception.

In episode 4, Sunny and Bizzy struggled to put together a sentence based on clues from a series of paintings. At some point they surmised, “Mama Rat took Baby Rat around the world on skis,” which is far from the correct phrase: “The world is smaller than you think.”

Sunny called the moment the “most hysterical” of all seasons [of TAR] I watched.” Bizzy agreed, calling it “great” before defending her logic.

“As far as the mama rat and the baby rat skiing, that experiment was – I didn’t know what that kind of puzzle was. That’s my opinion [thinking] was: “We have to remember these pictures in order, so I’m going to make up an absurd story that we can’t forget, and we’re going to go to this other place and lay them out in order to get our clue.”

Through all the ups and downs of the competition, Sunny and Bizzy remained calm and had each other’s backs.

“I am incredibly proud of our journey. “Other teams are dealing with some heat and I feel like we are the fan favorites,” Bizzy said. “I feel like we handled it with grace and humor, and I’m really proud of the race we ran.”

The Amazing Race airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS.