The wife of a former AFL player has turned heads in a plunging pink dress to raise awareness for the McGrath Foundation.
Kellie Finlayson, the wife of ex Port Adelaide player Jeremy Finlayson, was attending the Pink Test cricket event at the Sydney Cricket Ground, held to raise money for specialist cancer care.
Ms Finlayson, 30, was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer at the age of 25 — just three months after welcoming her daughter Sophia into the world.
Test results in 2024 revealed that the cancer had spread.
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Ms Finalyson wore a plunging pink dress that made her look reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe with a triangle halter-neck style top.
“You look lovely,” one fan said.
Another added; “WOW!!! You look amazing queen”
“An actual supermodel,” one person commented.
One added: “Stunning my girl.”
“Pink suits you very well,” another said.
Ms Finalyson marked a milestone birthday last month — one that she believed she may never make it to, after her bowel cancer diagnosis.
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“The commentary around 30 expected me to feel a decade older the moment I woke up, I didn’t obviously,” she said at the time.
“Personally I was spiralling the day before, not because I didn’t want to enter my 30s, I more than anyone know that ageing is a privilege.
“It was more around the fact that four years ago no one, including myself, thought that I would turn 30?! But I did, I’m here, and I plan to see 40, 50 and 60 too, so hold on honeys because luckily (or unluckily I’m still deciding) you’re all coming on the ride that is life with me.”
Bowel cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and the second deadliest, with 15,542 people diagnosed in 2024. The average age of diagnosis is 69 years old, however there has been a surge of early-onset diagnosis.
The risk of being diagnosed under 40 has doubled since 2000, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Ms Finlayson has shared snippets of her cancer battle with her 73,500 Instagram followers.
In between treatments, she has shared heartwarming moments of her personal life – attending glamorous events, being an attentive mother, supportive wife and even some travel.
This evidently prompted some social media users to question whether Ms Finlayson was still battling cancer, prompting her to issue a blunt statement to sceptics.
“Also fam, not that I should need to confirm this but I am very much still living with a stage four diagnosis and in the thick of active treatment,” Ms Finlayson wrote on Instagram, according to Daily Mail Australia.
She said she has chemotherapy daily, as well as three weekly infusions and sporadic surgeries.
“I’ve heard so much noise and read so many misleading comments that suggest I’ve been, quote, ‘fine’ for over 18 months now,” she said.
“While I understand that I look well, I do that on purpose.”
She has said she was “the queen” of tricking her own mind into believing she was well so she could show up as a mother, wife, author, speaker and advocate. She added cancer was only one part of her life.
“I’ve never let it consume me entirely and while the beginning was a little scarier, I’m still very much in the exact same position,” she said.