Influencer Jen Worman had heard about a full-body MRI scan thanks to Kim Kardashian, but never expected they would receive the same daunting medical news.
“I would actually say a couple years ago — I actually saw Kim Kardashian post one of the MRI things that she did — I looked into it, and I saw how expensive it was, and I was like, I’m over 40. I have two kids. I also dated somebody that ended up having cancer, and various people I know. And I thought to myself, ‘It would be great to prioritize this when I can,’” Worman exclusively told Us Weekly.
When simonONE approached Worman — who has more than 283,000 followers on Instagram — about undergoing a preventative full-body MRI, she was game.
“I really was just wanting to know how my liver was and how my heart was and the standard things,” Worman recalled, explaining that the actual scan itself was “easy” and not “that bad” from a claustrophobia standpoint.
She continued, “I gifted it to my boyfriend, did a scan, and then probably less than a week before I was supposed to get my official results — because you’re supposed to sit down with a doctor — the doctor actually called me and said, ‘Hey, we saw something and we’d love to talk to you about it.’ So they were really quick [to be] jumping on it and calling me.”
Worman, who was “caught off guard” by the phone call, was informed that she had a brain aneurysm. She had not previously had any symptoms such as severe headaches or blurred vision. (Brain aneurysms, which are common, are marked by swelling in a blood vessel in the brain. Most don’t rupture or cause serious health issues, however, a rupture can become life-threatening.)
Kim Kardashian finally opened up about her brain aneurysm — and the aftermath. During the Thursday, November 20, episode of The Kardashians, Kim, 45, shared how a complete body scan raised some red flags about her health. “They called me today and they’re like, ‘Everything looks great but you have an aneurysm in your brain,’” […]
“I think I was in a bit of shock at first, and after doing research and talking to them and talking to another neurologist, it sounds like very tiny brain aneurysms are in some people, some of them never grow, some of them never become anything,” Worman explained. “But the best safeguard is the fact that I do know and that I should get another scan next year. We will just monitor the growth. And as long as there’s no growth, I should be fine.”
Worman happened to find out her results around “the same time” as Kardashian, 45, publicly discussed her diagnosis of “a little aneurysm” during an October 2025 episode of The Kardashians. (Kardashian explained that her doctor speculated her brain aneurysm is likely related to “stress.”)
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“It was good and bad, right? Good in that I saw somebody else who was very famous go through the same thing, and I think she got the same results where, I mean, the primary thing everybody says is, ‘Try not to be stressed.’ But how do you not be stressed when you work for yourself? Or really, life in general?” Worman said, noting that Kardashian speaking about her diagnosis has “brought a lot of awareness about preventative health.”
After Worman’s experience with the simonONE MRI, her boyfriend underwent a similar preventative scan — and was diagnosed with a mass near his lung, which he is having removed in February.
“This is probably a cheesy statement, but health is wealth,” Worman said. “Like, without your health, you can’t work. Without your health, you can’t take care of your kids. You really can’t do anything. I know it sounds scary, but it definitely has brought to light me researching things more, me thinking about my life, more day to day decisions, like, ‘Should I work out today? Should I eat healthy today? Should I go get fast food today?’ I think it’s made me think a lot more about, like, what I do daily to take care of myself.”
