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My cancer story started 50 years ago. After giving birth to my daughter Fiona I was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called choriocarcinoma. At that time there was no treatment available in Scotland so I was flown to Charing Cross hospital in London, where Professor Bagshawe was pioneering new chemotherapy for this condition. It was a scary time. I was hospitalised in a sterile ward for 4 months. My chemotherapy had all the unpleasant side effects which many of my fellow models have experienced more recently. It was a long 4 months, with family visitors on some of the weekends. There was no internet then, no Facebook, no Messenger, no WhatsApp! It seems like a lifetime ago now, but I made it. I was cured! I was flown home to Aberdeen where my family and my now chubby 6 month old daughter were there to welcome me. It was one fabulous moment!

Fast forward to 2019, we had just celebrated our golden wedding, when I again was diagnosed with cancer, this time in the form of Lymphoma. I started my chemo in September 2019 and finished in February 2020, just before lockdown in March. I am in remission at the moment and feeling fine. While I underwent my treatment at ARI, Friends of Anchor provided a great deal of comfort in the form of manicures and tasty titbits and were a welcome distraction in many other ways.

I am delighted to have been chosen for this years Courage on the Catwalk, so I will strut my stuff as best I can, all 4ft 8" of me!

All donations will go to Friends of Anchor to help them carry on with all the wonderful work they do.