Kellie Finlayson has provided a major life update following her devastating stage four lung and bowel cancer diagnosis.
The AFL WAG, 29, shared a photo to social media on Tuesday and revealed she had returned to her role as a mathematics teacher after three years.
Kellie couldn’t hide her excitement at being back in the classroom as she posed for a radiant selfie after getting dressed for work.
‘First day back on the tools in three years,’ Kellie wrote next to the photo.
She also shared a clip of herself sitting in her car, applying makeup and glamming up ahead of the big day.
The Adelaide native looked effortlessly glamorous as she prepared for her return to work.
Kellie Finlayson has provided a major life update following her devastating stage four lung and bowel cancer diagnosis
‘Aging is an absolute privilege,’ she wrote.
It comes after Kellie recently revealed the emotional challenges of dealing with her diagnosis.
The WAG, 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 year, Kellie, who was promoting her new memoir There Must Be More, said 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.
The AFL WAG, 29, shared a photo to social media on Tuesday and revealed she had returned to her role as a mathematics teacher after three yearsÂ
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
‘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 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.’
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, who was born in 2021, just months before Kellie was first diagnosed.
