Fashion influencer Victoria Kozlyuk has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
“Well, this is a video I never thought I’d make. I’ve had the most overwhelming and stressful month of this year,” Kozlyuk, 34, said in a Friday, January 9, social media video. “I definitely did not think that I would be ending 2025 with cancer. It feels surreal to even say that out loud, to be honest.”
She continued, “This is just something that I have to walk through at this time.”
Kozlyuk filmed her video update on December 23, 2025, which was also the day that she underwent thyroid surgery.
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“It’s been something that has really taken a toll on me emotionally,” she said of her diagnosis. “[I am] just so incredibly grateful that it was found so early. … I am just a couple hours pre-surgery, and I’m feeling anxious [and] I’m feeling nervous.”
According to Kozlyuk, it was important to publicly share her story as a way to support others with similar diagnoses.
“I wanted to share this journey on here because I was watching this one woman, who was going through thyroid cancer and she was so nonchalant about it,” the influencer recalled. “She was just discussing her dad and her week and she was, like, ‘By the way, I stopped by the doctor.’”
Kozlyuk, for her part, had “never seen someone handle cancer so well.”
“It was so encouraging for me to see somebody who took something so hard and they turned it so positive,” the content creator noted. “Going through this experience, knowing that you have cancer living in you, you want to get it out as fast as possible. I don’t want to risk it [and] I don’t want it to spread.”
Kozlyuk’s surgery ultimately was successful and she has recently been focused on her continued recovery.
“I’ve been on this platform for a decade, yet this is the most vulnerable post I’ve ever had to make,” Kozlyuk captioned her video on Friday. “You’ve seen me at my happiest moments, but I also wanted to be transparent and share my most challenging. Although this is not a journey I ever hoped to share, or walk through, hiding this from you felt wrong.”
She concluded, “This is what I’ve been going through behind the scenes, and I’m adding another badge of strength to this body. 2026 will be my year of healing.”
Kozlyuk is best known as a fashion stylist with more than 522,000 followers on her “All Things Victoria” Instagram page, where she often documents her fashionable life as a mom of three. (Victoria and her husband, who have been married since 2011, share daughters Esmaé and Rose, as well as son Tristan.)
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“2016 was one of my favorite years of my life,” Kozlyuk wrote via her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, January 14, referring to the viral trend looking back on life a decade ago. “It’s the year we became parents. I had a great pregnancy with Esmaé! I do get hyperemesis with all my pregnancies … but it was the shortest this pregnancy.”
Per Kozlyuk, she and her husband “made so many memories” after welcoming their first daughter.
“Life was truly just unfolding,” she wrote on Wednesday. “Esmaé was the happiest and most calm baby/toddler. She made me want to have 10 babies. … Reflecting back on these last 10 years, its been so emotional for me. We had so many happy moments and, in recent years, so many trials and stressors.”
Kozlyuk concluded, “Life is so crazy sometimes. Nothing is more important than the health and wellbeing of your loved ones and children.”
