Comedian Tanya Hennessy has been hospitalized and has to undergo emergency surgery.
She took to her Instagram story on Thursday, March 19, posting two separate selfies of herself in a hospital bed, explaining what happened.
“How’s this? Have to get an emergency gallbladder removal,” she wrote. “Last night, I passed two gallstones and thought I was genuinely having a heart attack.”
“Today I am in a ward about to have surgery,” she continued. “It’s fine. But I have a 12-month-old baby, and I can’t stand being away from her. Man, this is a wild PP.”
On Friday, she shared an update, saying that she is still “in the ward,” and is “just waiting to know what happens next.”
“I have had so many DMs, apparently gallbladder removal after birth is common,” Hennessy added.
Tanya Hennessy Helped Set Up A Fundraiser While She Was Pregnant To Help Others
Hennessy teamed up with QENDO, which is an Australian non-profit that offers “compassionate, practical, and informed support to anyone impacted by endometriosis, pelvic pain, PCOS, adenomyosis, and infertility,” while she was pregnant.
And in an Instagram post shared by QENDO in December, they revealed that they had raised over $10,000 through Tanya’s Baby Shower Fundraiser for the organization.
“This funding helps ensure that every call is answered by someone who understands, providing guidance, connection, and reassurance to those who need it most,” the post said. “Your contribution helps us keep this essential service running, expand access, and continue supporting the thousands of individuals who reach out to us each year.”
Tanya Hennessy Opened Up About What It Was Like To Become A Mother At 40
At 40, Hennessy welcomed her first child, a daughter named Scottie, in December 2025. And in an interview with Stellar magazine, transcribed by The Daily Mail, she opened up about her struggles to conceive as well as what it was like to be pregnant.
“I think a lot of people who have been through IVF or infertility will understand this, but I just didn’t believe I was pregnant. I really struggled to say ‘I’m pregnant’ out loud. Never said it,” the comedian said, adding that during her pregnancy, she found herself trying to hide the baby bump rather than show it off because she was scared.
However, when she got to hold her baby for the first time, “my whole world just shifted so dramatically.”
“Sometimes I find it really hard to talk about motherhood because I represented the infertility community for so long, I feel like people get cranky at me for becoming a mother in a way because I’m no longer representing the infertility community,” she added. “‘I’m glad the grief is gone, I feel really whole. That’s not to say if you don’t have children, or you can’t have children, you won’t be whole. But in my circumstances, in this moment right now, for me, I feel whole.”
