Inside the homes of AFL grand final stars<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe commentary around 30 expected me to feel a decade older the moment I woke up, I didn\u2019t obviously,\u201d she said at the time. <\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally I was spiralling the day before, not because I didn\u2019t want to enter my 30s, I more than anyone know that ageing is a privilege. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more around the fact that four years ago no one, including myself, thought that I would turn 30?! But I did, I\u2019m here, and I plan to see 40, 50 and 60 too, so hold on honeys because luckily (or unluckily I\u2019m still deciding) you\u2019re all coming on the ride that is life with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The risk of being diagnosed under 40 has doubled since 2000, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.<\/p>\n
Ms Finlayson has shared snippets of her cancer battle with her 73,500 Instagram followers. <\/p>\n
In between treatments, she has shared heartwarming moments of her personal life \u2013 attending glamorous events, being an attentive mother, supportive wife and even some travel.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso 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,\u201d Ms Finlayson wrote on Instagram, according to Daily Mail Australia.<\/p>\n
She said she has chemotherapy daily, as well as three weekly infusions and sporadic surgeries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard so much noise and read so many misleading comments that suggest I\u2019ve been, quote, \u2018fine\u2019 for over 18 months now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I understand that I look well, I do that on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has said she was \u201cthe queen\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never let it consume me entirely and while the beginning was a little scarier, I\u2019m still very much in the exact same position,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of a former AFL player has turned heads in a plunging pink dress to raise awareness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[212227,638,64,63,689,55,639,60346,212222,32549,19018,212215,212216,22463,212223,122844,44209,212225,212221,677,212217,212228,6082,212220,150172,212219,212218,165701,1124,212226,85,212224,212214],"class_list":["post-398448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-active-treatment","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-bowel-cancer","tag-breakfast-menu-trial","tag-cancer-battle","tag-daily-mail","tag-early-onset-diagnosis","tag-kellie-finlayson","tag-krispy-kreme","tag-look-reminiscent","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-mcgrath-foundation","tag-media-mode","tag-milestone-birthday","tag-oceania","tag-pink-dress","tag-plunging-pink-dress","tag-port-adelaide","tag-raises-money","tag-royal-australian-college-of-general-practitioners","tag-sellout-item","tag-social-media-users","tag-sophia","tag-south-australia","tag-specialist-cancer-care","tag-sports","tag-surprise-breakfast-menu","tag-triangle-halter-neck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}