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Cancer-stricken Kellie Finlayson has revealed having her plans for a big family with her AFL star husband Jeremy ruined by the onset of early menopause has been the hardest pill for her to swallow during her battle with the killer disease.
The 27-year-old discovered she had a tumour in her bowel in November 2021 after suffering painful symptoms that were first thought to be side-effects of her pregnancy with baby daughter Sophia.
After Sophia was born, a colonoscopy discovered a tumour the size of a tennis ball. But after a year of intense treatment, she hoped the cancer had gone - only to have a CT scan show it had metastasised and spread to her lungs.
Now on the Gold Coast receiving treatment for Stage 4 cancer, Finlayson revealed that while the disease '100 per cent robbed' her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia, that wasn't the biggest struggle she has to overcome.
The mum-of-one revealed her battle with the disease '100 per cent' robbed her of her first year of motherhood with daughter Sophia
She married Port Adelaide star Jeremy in a surprise beachside ceremony in Adelaide earlier this month (pictured)
'I've gone into early menopause. Whether I can come back from that, I don't know,' she told the Life Uncut podcast this week.
'That was honestly my biggest struggle, knowing that I may not give Sophia any siblings, which is so hard. We had always planned to have a big family.
'It's just something that I always wanted. It was the hardest pill to swallow out of all the pills I've swallowed in the last 18 months.
'We've kind of come to terms with it knowing how many options we do have.'
Finlayson explained that adoption is no longer a possibility due to her terminal diagnosis, which means 'no one is going to give me a child'.
A surrogate pregnancy or egg donation are possibilities but there are huge obstacles to overcome with those methods.
Going into early menopause and almost certainly losing her dream of starting a big family is the 'hardest pill to swallow out of all the pills I've swallowed in the last 18 months', she said
'I know there are options out there, just trying to
