Cobie Smulders was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and now she reveals how she successfully got rid of the fatal disease.

The How I Met Your Mother star revealed in Women's Health magazine that she was diagnosed with the deadly disease when she was just 25 years old and had undergone multiple surgeries in the two years that followed to get rid of it.

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Now 33, she's ready to open up about her health scare, "I had tumors on both ovaries and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues," she said.

Cobie, who tied the knot with Saturday Night Live's Taran Killam back in 2012, welcomed two children, 5-year old Shaelyn and a three-month old son, born in January of this year, after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and said that she would not be able to get pregnant naturally. 

However, despite the successful surgeries, she feels like she will never be able to live life cancer-free again. But she's turning her experience into something more meaningful by helping raise awareness of ovarian cancer-which is the disease responsible for 14,000 deaths of women last year. 

"Now that I am five years out, I'm trying to think of it as a positive thing and what I can learn from it. If I can create more awareness, I'll do it," she said.

Cobie, who graces the cover of Women's Health's May issue, posed topless and willingly agreed to do so to show how confident she is and not because she thinks she's sexy. Discussing the photo shoot, she said that it's interesting because it's her first topless photo shoot where she wasn't trying to look sexy. And added that since it's a magazine for women, she felt like going topless was about being more comfortable and happy with your own body. "That's what this cover was more about." 

Watch Cobie reprise her role as Maria Hill in the new Avengers: Age of Ultron, which hits theaters on May 1.

TagsCobie Smulders, Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Women's Health