I was diagnosed with a lobular breast cancer in May 2011.  Nothing can prepare you for the word "cancer"; it is so shocking it takes your breath away.  Suddenly, your life is changed in a moment, to revolve around hospital appointments and test results. The night I was diagnosed was long and lonely.  I visited many dark thoughts and came to a conclusion as morning broke.  I could either sink into deep depression, or I could fight this with as much positivety and vigour as possible.

I spent the next year fighting my way through a mastectomy and chemotherapy.  I decided to have fun with wigs and bought seven different styles and colours and I tried to be as glamorous as possible - Not an approach that would work for everyone, but it suited me.

It took nearly two years from diagnosis to fight back to full health. One day, I woke up and it was as if someone had flicked a switch inside me.  I suddenly wanted to draw and be creative again and since then I have not looked back.

Being picked as a model for "The Show" was an enormous confidence booster.  I can not wait to be styled, primped and blow dried.  It will be an incredible, uplifting experience and I hope it will act as a fitting finale to my final closure on having brest cancer.