Richard Simmons diagnosed with skin cancer [Video]

Richard Simmons is opening up about being diagnosed with skin cancer.

The fitness personality wrote about seeking medical care for a “strange looking bump under my right eye,” in a post on Facebook Tuesday.

“I had a tube of neosporin which I would put on I the morning and the evening….it was still there,” he continued. “It was time to call my dermatologist.”

Simmons wrote that he began to get nervous during the exam by his doctor.

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“He comes back about 20 minutes later and says the C word. You have cancer,” Simmons wrote. “I asked him what kind of cancer and he said. Basel Cell Carcinoma. I told him to stop calling me dirty names. He laughed.”

According to his post, Simmons then saw a specialist to remove the cancer cells from his face but the first attempt did not clear all the margins.

“After driving …