New York and applying for journalism school, and I’d just done a modelling campaign with Donna Karan, a family friend. I was athletic and I felt invincible.
So I was completely floored when a few weeks later I was diagnosed with stage three [out of four] lymphatic cancer. Suddenly, I found myself in a very different and serious world to the one I was used to.
I had surgery to remove some lymph nodes, but the results showed they were still cancerous, so I had more taken away, and then more again.
Ultimately, I needed four surgeries on my left groin for the doctors to go deep enough to remove the cancerous lymph nodes. I was the youngest person they’d ever treated with lymph cancer to this degree.
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