{"id":2510867,"date":"2026-07-21T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510867"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:51:36","slug":"friends-alum-lauren-tom-reveals-daughters-bone-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/friends-alum-lauren-tom-reveals-daughters-bone-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friends&#8217; alum Lauren Tom reveals daughter&#8217;s bone cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFriends\u201d alum Lauren Tom revealed her 25-year-old daughter Ellie has brain cancer. <\/p>\n<p>The actress shared the \u201ctough news\u201d about her daughter\u2019s health on Sunday in<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Da_KnuMgYnl\/?img_index=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an Instagram post<\/a> with multiple photos of Ellie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is currently battling osteosarcoma, (bone cancer) and my family and I are doing everything we can to aid in her healing,\u201d Tom, 64, wrote. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cFriends\u201d alum Lauren Tom announced her 25-year-old daughter Ellie has brain cancer (Tom and Elie are seen above). <span class=\"credit\">laurentom9000\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom said their family is \u201cdoing everything we can\u201d to help Ellie (pictured above) in her cancer battle. <span class=\"credit\">laurentom9000\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The \u201cSupernatural\u201d star thanked their \u201cfriends and family, and the incredible doctors and nurses at @cedarssinai for their ongoing boundless support, love, and care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is truly humbling to see how willing people are to reach out and help,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Tom praised Ellie for being \u201can amazing, deep, sensitive, wise, strong, brave, intelligent, and funny soul,\u201d before noting that they have \u201ca long journey ahead.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At the end of her message, Tom asked her followers to pray for Ellie\u2019s \u201ccomplete recovery\u201d and show support by leaving a comment on her post, or on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eliatom_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellie\u2019s IG account. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much for reading and for your support,\u201d Tom concluded.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom also said Ellie (seen above) has \u201ca long journey ahead.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">laurentom9000\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Elsewhere in her message, Tom asked her followers to pray for Ellie\u2019s \u201ccomplete recovery.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">laurentom9000\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The voice actress also shared a supportive message on Ellie\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Da6utInuCap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recent Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are strong, brave and will recover from this completely to live a beautiful, meaningful life,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYou are so loved, Ellie, by everyone who knows you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom shares Ellie and son Leo with her husband, actor Curt Kaplan, whom she married in 1999.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom (pictured above with David Schwimmer in \u201cFriends\u201d) said in a separate message that Ellie \u201cwill recovery from this completely to live a beautiful, meaningful life.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Warner Bros<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom (seen above with Matthew Perry and Schwimmer in \u201cFriends\u201d) shares Ellie with husband Curt Kaplan. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom famously played Ross\u2019 girlfriend, Julie, on Season 2 of \u201cFriends\u201d in 1995 and 1996. <\/p>\n<p>Her other notable TV roles include the ABC shows \u201cGrace Under Fire\u201d and \u201cMen in Trees,\u201d and the Disney Channel series \u201cAndi Mack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In animation, Tom has voiced roles in \u201cFuturama,\u201d \u201cKing of the Hill,\u201d \u201cTeen Titans Go!\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFriends\u201d alum Lauren Tom revealed her 25-year-old daughter Ellie has brain cancer. The actress shared the \u201ctough news\u201d about her daughter\u2019s health on Sunday in an Instagram post with multiple photos of Ellie. \u201cShe is currently battling osteosarcoma, (bone cancer) and my family and I are doing everything we can to aid in her healing,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,23383,30058,70626,347142,24003,26742,21913],"class_list":["post-2510867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-cancer","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-illnesses","tag-celebrity-news","tag-friends","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Friends-alum-Lauren-Tom-reveals-daughters-bone-cancer-diagnosis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510869,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510867\/revisions\/2510869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}