Exclusive | Jersey Shore star Snooki says her cancer diagnosis has inspired fans to get checked

She gave her a reality check.“Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi saved the life of a fan — who was so inspired by the reality star’s openness about her cervical cancer diagnosis that she booked the hysterectomy she’d been avoiding for three years.“This girl messaged me and she was like, ‘Oh my God, you literally saved my life … I just didn’t want to deal with having to go through all the surgeries and everything … You literally gave me the courage to do that or I would have never done anything,'” Polizzi told The Post.“We call each other ‘hystersisters.’ So it’s like we’re in like a special club,” she added of the many women who reached out after she posted about her health journey on social media.Polizzi, who was diagnosed with Stage 1 cervical cancer in February and underwent a hysterectomy in July, said others credited her with giving them the motivation they needed to visit the doctor.“Women have said they hadn’t gone to the gynecologist to get a Pap smear in like 10 years.

And they’re like, ‘You know what? I ended up going and I have pre-cancerous cells,'” said Polizzi, 38, who is hosting the nonprofit F Cancer’s 100th event on Sept.23 at Academy Nightclub in Los Angeles.“I don’t want to say I’m saving lives, but it’s just educating and making sure these women get to these appointments because I ended up not going, and look what I went through.”The mom of three turned to social media herself for answers after receiving her devastating diagnosis.“I literally went to TikTok and I put in ‘cervical cancer’ to see if anyone else made videos because I just felt so alone,” she said.“And I feel like no women talk about Pap smears and abnormal results.”She realized cervical cancer was a taboo subject since it is predominantly caused by the Human papillomavirus (HPV), which spreads through sexual contact — so she decided to share her story.“I felt like there was a missing community fo...