Meet Fiona Morgan Coleman, a Mayo-based mum who will brighten your day. Fiona is sunshine. Bottle her energy and you have a sell out. And sell outs, as you’ll soon find out, are something Fiona knows all about.
It was by pure fluke that Fiona set up an Instagram account the day she was diagnosed, aged 40, with an aggressive form of stage three breast cancer. Little did she know then, the power it would wield, how Instagram would become not just her support network that would help her through some of her toughest chemo days, but how, in time, it would also grow into a business where she frequently sells out her makeup brushes, her room sprays and her candles.
We sat down with Fiona for our February issue as she discusses living with cancer, explaining: “The treatment I am on at the moment is
a treatment for life, my cancer is incurable but you live with it. This month I am three years on this treatment which only came out in 2019.
“It has really worked and I am very grateful for that. I can live my life, which is great.”
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But despite living with an incurable cancer, she is one of the bubbliest people we have ever met, although she’s not sure where it comes from.
“Even my mum says to me sometimes, ‘Jesus Fiona, how have you got through all of this?’ I think it’s just my personality, travelling around the world and seeing people in third world countries, I’ve always thought, ‘God, my life could be so much worse’,” she says.
But keeping that positive energy alive, she says of her illness: “You will come out the other side and it could be your best life because it changes you as a person. I am definitely living my best life now. I am very content, I am very happy living with cancer and it has brought me so much joy, along with the hardship. It’s changed me for the better.”
Pick up the February issue of VIP Magazine for our full chat with Fiona Morgan Coleman