Teddi Mellencamp

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 during 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.

• In 2006, during her marriage to Matt Robertson, she revealed that she was early while he was late on their first date. But when she fell in love with him, she knew that they would get married in her father’s house in Indiana.

  

• She later founded a lifestyle and fitness company named All In by Teddi, which was criticised by many clients for forcing one plan instead of a customised 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 became popular for her appearances in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH), where she openly talked about her sexual flings in the past.

  

• 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.

• The makers of RHOBH fired her in 2020, claiming she was boring and did not add any value to the show.

• She revealed in November 2022 that when she was 15 years old, she once fought with her father over money, following which she did not talk to him for 3 years. They started talking when VH1 hired them to appear in an episode of ‘Behind The Music.’

  

• 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.

  

• Around the same time, the rumours came out that Arroyave also cheated on her between 2015 and 2016 with a woman named Missy. While one source claimed she was Teddi’s best friend, another claimed that Missy met Arroyave 4 times.

• The sources claimed that she found out about the affair in March 2016 and came very close to the divorce, before reconciling their differences.

• 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 April 2023, she claimed on SiriusXM that when she was 20 years old, she used a fake ID to enter the nightclub where she met the Hollywood actor Matt Damon and they had a one-night stand.

• 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 tumours that had caused headaches for many months and had been growing for the last 6 months. She also battled other challenges, including throwing up as she once vomited 85 times in one day.

  

• 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 tumours. 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 her 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 a car 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 pm. 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.

• In April 2025, she revealed that her relationship with her husband Edwin Arroyave improved after her brain tumour surgery.

• On 23 April 2025, her doctors told her that her tumours had shrunk or completely disappeared. She revealed to her fans that she was just 2 immunotherapy sessions away from being cancer-free or a cancer survivor.

  

• She revealed that her father used to talk to her up to 11 times every day and even planned a burial site for her in the family’s mausoleum in Indiana.

• She once praised her father by claiming that he always flies his daughters and grandchildren home for holidays, but never pays for the tickets of the son-in-laws, as he believes they have to figure that out on their own.

  

• She suffered many miscarriages while trying to conceive her son, Cruz, after which she had to undergo IVF.

• She underwent a breast surgery after her children were born, in which doctors added 210 cc implants.