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James Van Der Beek Shares One Thing He Learned from His Cancer Diagnosis That He Now Instills in His 6 Children


When speaking on the latest episode of the 'Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast,' James Van Der Beek opened up about what going through cancer treatments taught him and what they revealed to him about fatherhood and self-love.

When speaking on the latest episode of the Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast, the Dawson's Creek star, 48, opened up about what going through cancer treatments taught him and what they revealed to him about fatherhood and self-love. Van Der Beek shared that his recent health issues made it seem like all of his titles — father, husband and provider, which he built his self-worth on — to be "all of a sudden not true." In October 2019, when Van Der Beek and his wife announced they were expecting their sixth child, the father of six opened up to PEOPLE about how grateful he was to expand his family once again.

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