TV3’S MARTIN
Dubliner Jenny, who’s been shooting weddings for 16 years and has snapped celeb weddings ranging from Glenda Gilson to most of the Irish football team, had a cancer scare in 2010.
Recalling how she met the love of her life, she told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “I was one of those Black Thunder Babes at 98FM and Martin worked there as a DJ and we became friends first of all and then it went from there.
“TV3 came along and poached him and off he went, we’re together ever since.”
When the pair met, Martin had two children and Jenny had her son.
She explained: “But we never segregate them like that at all, they’re ours, I always say five, our children don’t see it like that.”
And 47-year-old Jenny explained how Martin took his time proposing to her.
She said: “We got married in 2011, we never felt a rush to do it, we just knew we’d be together for ever.
TUMOUR
Jenny with Kevin Kilbane, Brianne Delcourt & Martin at her candle launch
“In the Christmas before that, I had a brain tumour and got it taken out in the February, I didn’t want to make a big song and dance about it, we were trying to keep it quiet.
“I was worried brides would think, ‘Oh, I’m not hiring her because she’s sick’.
“I had it successfully removed, so it was a happy ending.
“It was benign, but it was in a dodgy area on my frontal lobe, I had to go shopping for a brain surgeon to take it out.
“On my fifth one, I found the surgeon, who said he’d take it out, all the others said it was too dangerous.
“They told me they wanted it to turn cancerous and then they’d take it out, I eventually found this man Ciaran Bolger, he’s the closest thing to God as far as I’m concerned.
“I never believed I was going to die, I just kept thinking I’ll find the one and get it out. I said to him I need to do 17 weddings so if this is going to affect my work I won’t get the operation done.
“He said no problem, I did the weddings with a brain tumour in my head and then I went and got it taken out in February. The tumour was slow growing, stage two, the problem was it
Martin & Jenny with son Mathew
Jenny & Martin was the size of an egg, right on my frontal lobe where my memory is and everything.
“I have to go back every year and get a scan on my head but every year I go back and know it’s going to be fine.”
Martin told the Irish Sunday Mirror his masterplan to ask Jenny to marry him was slow in the planning.
He said: “I overheard Jenny saying, ‘There’s one thing I know about Martin,