On September 11th, I will start a 5-day trek around Mont Blanc in support of CoppaFeel! - the breast cancer awareness charity.

I will be trekking the French Alps along with I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here winner Giovanna Fletcher and I'll be part of Team Mother Pukka - aka presenter, best-selling author & Flex-Appeal campaigner, Anna Whitehouse ❤

Bake-off winner Candice Brown, The Only Way is Essex's Pete Wicks and Life After Tom's Kelsey Parker will helm the other 3 groups.

We will be hiking 8 hours per day (possibly more) on mountainous terrain and rough paths through the world-famous Chamonix valley under the shadows of Mont Blanc, Europe’s tallest mountain.

In April 2021, I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer after finding a lump in my right breast. I had no family history of breast cancer and was under 40 at the time, so a cancer diagnosis was very unexpected, but it was down to CoppaFeel!’s breast awareness campaigns that I was able to recognise the signs and get diagnosed fast.

I underwent a year of treatment including six months of chemotherapy to attack the cancer cells, and as I had found my lump early, these treatments successfully shrank my lump so that surgery and radiotherapy could remove what was left.

So I applied for this year’s trek as I know how important being breast aware is for everyone - no matter your age, genetics or gender. If diagnosed early, breast cancer can be very treatable. When diagnosed at stage 1, almost all (98%) of people with breast cancer will survive their disease for five years or more, compared with only around 1 in 4 (26%) people when the disease is diagnosed at stage 4.

My fitness levels are still a long way off what they were before treatment, so this challenge is going to be tough, but being selected for this year’s trek is amazing, and anything you can donate towards helping me meet my fundraising target and supporting CoppaFeel’s lifesaving mission will be amazing too.

Thanks so much for your donation & support and don't forget to CHECK YOUR CHESTS PEOPLE!