AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson looked glamorous as she attended the John Cahill Medal ceremony on Friday evening.
The 28-year-old, who is battling stage 4 bowel and lung cancer, shared a series of images to Instagram as she got ready for the event at home.
She dressed to impress in a long black gown which featured a sheer design at the front.
The mother-of-three, who is married to Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson, also 28, completed her stunning look with a bright red lip.
Kellie tied her long brunette locks back into a high ponytail as she posed at her home before attending the event with her AFL star husband.
Jeremy also looked dapper in a black tuxedo, white buttoned shirt and black dress shoes.
The event comes after Kellie opened up about her battle with terminal cancer in a heartbreaking interview on Nova’s Head Game podcast with Ant Middleton.
The mother-of-one bravely told listeners she did not want her life to to be ‘defined by her disease’.
AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson looked glamorous as she attended the John Cahill Medal ceremony on Friday evening with her AFL star husband Jeremy Finlayson
‘If I’m alive, I might as well live. I’m living on borrowed time. I need to make the most of it,’ Kellie said.
Kellie added that she took pride in ‘thriving’ with cancer and was determined not to take her illness and its side effects ‘one day at a time’.
‘I’m still advocating for this disease that I’m quite literally being treated for,’ she said.
‘I am still parenting really quite well. I’m doing all the things that a normal parent would do for the most part, and I feel like if I lived each day or day by day, then I’m doing a disservice.
‘Like I’m not. I guess I want to make sure that I’m alive for a reason. If I’m alive, I might as well live. I’m living on borrowed time. I need to make the most of it.’
Kellie and Jeremy recently sold their Adelaide home for a price well above their expectations.
The couple revealed in August they were selling their property so they could get a place suited to providing Kellie with in-home care.
The 28-year-old, who is battling stage 4 bowel and lung cancer, dressed to impress as she arrived in a long black gown which featured a sheer design at the front
The social media influencer has been fighting bowel and lung cancer after she was diagnosed in November 2021 following the birth of the couple’s daughter Sophia.
She underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy after her initial stage 3 diagnosis worsened to stage 4.
In July, she confirmed the sad news she would have to resume chemotherapy to quickly get on top of the cancer, which had started growing again after she stopped chemo and radiation therapy in favour of natural and alternative treatments.
The couple sold their home at auction for $915,000, with the bidding starting at $700,000 before climbing quickly.
The home attracted plenty of interest and was eventually sold to a local buyer.
They bought the house in May 2022 and hoped to make it their home for many years.
The mother-of-three completed her stunning look with a bright red lip as she posed at her home
‘I really wanted a heritage home, like a villa with hardwood floors, and this one was in really good condition,’ Kellie told Adelaide Now.
‘It’s got the world’s biggest backyard, and we wanted to extend, but with my health that didn’t happen.’
Unfortunately, Kellie’s ongoing illness means the couple needs more room for her care and have decided to find a rental property.
‘This was to be our forever home, but I guess life had other plans,’ Kellie said.
In January this year, Kellie stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments to put her trust in natural therapies and alternative medicine.
Sadly, the severity of her cancer battle made that impossible.
‘Unfortunately with cancer, especially relapsed cancer, it grows really fast so once we see not even quite a millimetre of growth in a scan over a couple of months, we know that means it’s growing and that means that we have to act on it,’ Kellie said in a video she posted on TikTok.
Jeremy also looked dapper in a black tuxedo, white buttoned shirt and black dress shoes as they posed with Miles Bergman and his girlfriend Meecah
‘So normally I walk out of a meeting with my oncologist and he tells me that we’re happy to watch and wait. Not the case today.
‘I am off to see a surgeon next week and a radiotherapist also just to get all of my options before potentially starting chemotherapy again.
‘I guess I’m one of the lucky ones because we know chemotherapy works really well for me, but any chemotherapy is f***ed and not what I want to be doing.’
Kellie is hopeful she can manage the illness with treatments that may allow her to survive for many years to come.
‘As long as [the cancer] is being maintained, I feel like I’ve got the potential to have quite a long life. I could see Sophia’s 21st birthday!’ she said.
‘I hope I see her first day of school. That’s still years away, but it’s longer than I anticipated when I first heard the diagnosis.’
