Bhad Bhabie has announced she is pursuing a nursing license while continuing to battle cancer.
Danielle Bregoli, 23, revealed the career pivot in a post on X last week, sharing a selfie dressed in medical scrubs. The Florida-born rapper, who first gained fame as the “Cash Me Outside” teen on Dr. Phil in 2016, told followers she has been studying for the qualification. “I been working on getting my nursing license, I love the med field,” she wrote.
The disclosure arrives months after Bregoli received what she described as “bad news” from her doctor regarding her cancer treatment. She has remained publicly defiant about her prognosis throughout. “God has the last say so not my cancer,” she added in the same X post.
Bregoli first went public with her cancer diagnosis in 2024, using Instagram to push back against followers who had speculated about her visible weight loss. “I’m sorry my cancer medicine made me loose weight,” she wrote at the time. “I’m slowly gaining it back. So stop running with the worst narratives.”
Her mother, Barbara Bregoli, later intervened with an emotional video response to online critics. “Let me say this, social media has become an app where people think they can come on here and say the most vile things,” she said on Instagram. “and think it’s funny because they’re hiding behind a screen.”
She continued: “That’s the lowest form of anything. Babies don’t ask to get cancer, little children don’t ask to get cancer, the elderly don’t ask to get – nobody asks to get cancer.”
Barbara Bregoli finished with a direct warning to detractors: “Don’t ever say something about someone unless you’ve experienced it. Let me tell you something, play with me every day. Don’t come after my kid. Don’t come after my family.”
The nursing announcement marks a potential departure from the entertainment trajectory Bregoli has pursued since her viral breakthrough. She released music including singles “These Heaux” and “Hi Bich” and maintained a significant presence on subscription platforms, having previously claimed substantial earnings from that work.
Bregoli’s path to public recognition began with a 2016 appearance on Dr. Phil, where the then-13-year-old’s confrontational response to audience laughter — “Cash me outside, how ’bout dat?” — became one of the decade’s most enduring internet memes. The phrase spawned merchandise, remixes, and a rebranding that launched her into a music career as Bhad Bhabie, making her the youngest female rapper to appear on the Billboard Hot 100.
The timeline for her nursing qualification remains unspecified, and Bregoli has not indicated whether she intends to step back from music or social media content creation.