{"id":311691,"date":"2026-02-22T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311691\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:41:10","slug":"im-nothing-if-not-resilient-author-cathy-kelly-on-overcoming-sexual-assault-bulimia-divorce-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311691\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m nothing if not resilient\u2019 \u2013 author Cathy Kelly on overcoming sexual assault, bulimia, divorce and cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Writer speaks of her relief following a new health scare\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Writer Cathy Kelly photographed for the 'Sunday Independent' at the InterContinental Hotel in Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/45a8bfda-b091-43c1-9355-a1f64b874a5b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Writer Cathy Kelly photographed for the &#8216;Sunday Independent&#8217; at the InterContinental Hotel in Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With her 60th birthday on the horizon, Cathy Kelly knows only too well that life can change in an instant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2023 and has been recovering well. She is glowing and a vision of happiness when we meet for a chat in a quiet corner of a Dublin hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer speaks of her relief following a new health scare Writer Cathy Kelly photographed for the &#8216;Sunday Independent&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,11111,6083,11184],"class_list":{"0":"post-311691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","12":"tag-niamh-horan","13":"tag-prince-andrew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}