AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson Shares Cancer Insurance Hack Amid Ongoing Battle

Kellie Finlayson has shared a useful hack for people facing drastic health issues.

The AFL WAG, 29, said cancer sufferers should get insurance for ‘everything’ since no provider will sign a client with an existing health issue.

Kellie, who has won admiration from followers for her upbeat outlook while facing a terminal diagnosis for bowel cancer, included a photo of herself in the post smiling hopefully.

The mother-of-one made her comments during an Instagram question and answer in which a follower asked about health coverage.

‘Travelling with stage 4 cancer and not being able to get insurance. How to work through?’ the follower asked.

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‘Get insurance for everything else, no one will ever cover for an existing illness/injury, cancer is just one of them!’ Kellie replied. 

Typically, the social media favourite shared a positive spin, adding, ‘You can either live with cancer at home or on holiday,’ she said.

It comes after Kellie recently revealed the emotional challenges of dealing with her diagnosis in a candid new interview.

Kellie, who is married to Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson, is battling stage four bowel and lung cancer and has undergone thoracic surgery in recent months.

She was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021 and revealed in 2022 that the illness had spread to her lungs.

Appearing on the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show podcast’s Safe Space series earlier this month, Kellie, who was promoting her new memoir There Must Be More, said that she was ‘thriving’ in the wake of her diagnosis.

When Jess asked Kellie what she meant by ‘thriving’, she said it was all about changing her frame of mind.

‘It completely comes from mindset,’ she said.

‘I feel like I still live each day the same as I used to, if not with more life, if that makes sense,’ she said.

‘I turned a really s***ty situation into a pretty incredible one and a really powerful one with a lot of purpose.’

Kellie added that one of the challenges of battling cancer could be how the diagnosis robs the sufferer of agency.

‘We don’t get many choices when we’re diagnosed. We get: Start this treatment or die, essentially. They’re your options – get really, really sick from this treatment, or don’t be here anymore,’ she said.

Kellie added that one choice still in front of her was how she chose to fight the disease emotionally.

‘The only choice I guess I did have was how I responded to that and how I almost copped it on the chin – like an insult,’ she said.

‘[I] got on with life and did the things I could do to make each day okay, initially, and now great.’

Jess then asked Kellie if she had ever experienced “why me?” moments, with the WAG replying that it all comes down to mindset. 

In March, Kellie revealed she had undergone a VATS procedure to remove a piece of tissue from her lungs. VATS stands for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, which is a form of keyhole surgery.

She revealed that doctors had removed metastatic tissue from her lungs.

Metastatic tissue occurs when cancer cells spread from a primary tumour to other areas in the body to form new tumours.

Kellie and Jeremy tied the knot in March 2023, in an intimate ceremony at South Australia’s Tennyson Beach.

They share daughter Sophia, three, who was born in 2021, just months before Kellie was first diagnosed.