'Like Kate Middleton, I had to tell my young child I had cancer - it was the first time she saw me cry'
Nina Lopes, 42, from south London had her world rocked when she was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in 2021, aged just 36, and told she had just three months to live.
While the 42 year old has beaten the odds, she has had to have difficult conversations with her daughter Ilani, 13, including the heartwrenching moment she told her about her terminal diagnosis.
Now, she tells us about how she approached these conversations with her small child, and the unbreakable bond she shares with her daughter. "I was diagnosed in 2018, when my daughter was around six years old.
I worked as head designer in menswear, so I was traveling all over the place, and I was also getting divorced at the time, but in January, I noticed that I was just very, very tired.
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