BodyAfterBaby

I was so deeply saddened by the death of Kerryn McCann in December 2008 from breast cancer. McCann was one of Australia's greatest athletes and someone who I had admired for a very long time. I had the opportunity and privilege to meet and interview Kerryn for my book My Body After Baby. It was a meeting I will never forget. Nor will I forget the phone call the day her manager called to say Kerryn had breast cancer and that she wanted to let me know. It didn’t make sense that someone so fit and healthy could have been struck down by such a horrific disease. I just thought she would recover as she had the most amazing strength. She told me at the time that her family and the birth of her third child Cooper was what kept her fighting spirit alive and strong. She said “it had been a shock for us…I didn’t think that healthy people would ever get cancer. I eat healthily, I exercise, I’m not overweight. I plan on fighting the cancer. Other women have been through it so I can do it, too.”