Cancer , and the ongoing treatment to keep me alive, has completely ravaged my body. My bowel is riddled with scar tissue, chemotherapy has caused osteoporosis in my spine, and my liver has been close to failing several times. And every time I walk down the street or get on a bus I worry that people are judging me for how I look.
Since starting chemotherapy last summer I've put on at least two stone in weight due to steroids, my face has acquired a very unsexy pinkish red rash, my hair has many shades of grey and is a lot thinner than it's ever been before, and I have a massive hernia that surgeons might not be able to operate on. So when I saw the post by outspoken Good Morning Britain commentator Narinder Kaur about Kate, Princess of Wales , on Remembrance Sunday, when she wrote on X: “Genuine question – why has Kate aged so much? Isn’t she only 42? Is she a smoker? It’s the only explanation," you can see why I was absolutely furious. I'm on cycle 30 of my chemotherapy and, as a "lifer" in the cancer day unit I've witnessed as both men and women come to terms with how the disease has changed how they look.
None of us have had to do this under the spotlight that the Princess of Wales has had to endure. And, quite frankly, none of us look as good as she does after her treatment for cancer. As she stood on the balcony overlooking the Cenotaph Princess Kate looked solemn and she looked cold.
That's it. I don't know what version of events Narinder Kaur was watching but I.