Teddi Mellencamp Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Teddi Mellencamp

• Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave spent her childhood watching the entertainment industry as her father was an artist.

• She moved to Los Angeles after completing high school. She worked in the CAA mailroom in the day and as a restaurant hostess in the evening. She lived in a shared studio apartment with a girl she met in the acting class.

• She auditioned for one year and met a manager who got her a small role in a TV series, but she was asked to shed 20 kgs which she refused and lost the role.

• She has liked horse riding since childhood. She first rode her horse at the age of 4 years and has been rising ever since.

• She has competed in various horse-riding competitions, including the World Champion Hunter Rider (WCHR) show on the West Coast, including at Thermal, Del Mar and the Menlo Charity Horse Show in 2009. She even became the WCHR Emerging Pro Regional Champion for the Southwest.

• She founded a lifestyle and fitness company named All In by Teddi, which was criticised by many clients for forcing one plan instead of a customized diet plan. Most diet plans had less than 700 calories.

• Also, if the company finds out about the client failing to adhere to the schedule or gaining weight, they are removed from the program without any refund.

• She revealed in a 2019 interview that she first met Edwin Arroyave at a Hollywood nightclub around a decade ago and dated him for a long time. He didn’t believe in marriage, but he came home crying one day and told her that she was the girl he wanted to marry, and they later got married.

• In September 2020, she, along with her husband, bought an 8,550-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Encino neighbourhood for $6.5 million.

• In November 2024, she announced that they were filing for divorce. She also said that she suffered the hardest time in her marriage just before she started appearing in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH).

• It was later reported that she was having an affair with her horse trainer Simon Schroeder, who runs Schroeder Sporthorses in Moorpark, California, with his wife Karli Postel

• She later started co-hosting a podcast named Two T’s in a Pod with the businesswoman and actress Tamra Judge.

• In 2022, she appeared as a participant in Celebrity Big Brother, aired on CBS, and was the first person to be evicted.

• She revealed in October 2022 that she was suffering from a type of skin cancer called stage II melanoma, which was treated immediately.

• In November 2023, she interviewed guests at the DirecTV Celebrates Christmas at Kathy’s as a special correspondent for Extra.

• In February 2025, she revealed that she was suffering from several brain tumors that had caused headaches for many months and had been growing for the last 6 months.

• She revealed in March 2025 that the stage 4 Melanoma cancer had spread to her lungs, and she felt like she was on her deathbed while doctors treated her.

• She later told the public that she underwent brain surgery to treat the brain tumors. She also gave an update that she was being treated using radiation and immunotherapy.

• While the treatment continued, she kept walking, going to the gym and horse shows with her daughter Slate.

• There is a family tradition that her father, John Mellencamp, follows. On her birthdays and her siblings and kids, he has always given them the cash amount equal to their age. In 2024, he gave her $43 on her 43rd birthday.

• She suffers from anxiety while driving cars and usually travels by sitting in the backseat of the car as a passenger.

• She is a big fan of Alo Yoga hoodies and has one in every colour.

• A few of her must-have makeup items and accessories include the Sunday Riley Good Genes All-in-One Lactic Acid Treatment, Bliss Block Star Sheer Tinted Daily Sunscreen, Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream, Rinna Beauty Icon Lip Kit,  and Ayan Beauty Never Basic Lashes.

• She often eats salad in the afternoon that contains arugula, tomatoes, chickpeas, avocado, brown rice, and beets, topped with lime juice as dressing.

• She eats her food at the same time every day: breakfast at 8 am, lunch at noon, and dinner at 6. She also drinks 1 glass of water every day before having food.

• She likes to write down her schedule for a week and wake up before her children so she can exercise or do something else that she likes.