As model and 'Dancing with the Stars' cohost Brooke Burke prepared to undergo surgery for thyroid cancer Wednesday, she tried to focus on her family and healing.

On Nov. 8, Burke first revealed she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and planned to have a thyroidectomy.

'I've booked my surgery,' she said in a YouTube video. 'It's taken me a couple of months to really wrap my head around this ... Now I'm good. I'm ready to deal with it, and I'm going to be fine. I feel really, really strong. Doctors say this is a 'good' kind of cancer to have ... My doctor did tell me this is a happily ever after ending kind of thing.'

The mother of four has been sharing the personal experience with fans via her Modern Mom blog. On Wednesday, the day of her surgery, Burke revealed how she told her kids she had cancer.

'I decided not to tell my children about my diagnosis for as long as I possibly could because I didn't want them to worry,' she wrote in a blog post. 'I know that my younger ones still don't have a great concept of time and I didn't want them to be anxious, worried and asking 1,000 questions.'

When Burke finally decided it was time to have the conversation, she told her 12-year-old daughter first.

'She was really scared and concerned. She cried, and her biggest fear was if I was going .