JODIE’S CANCER DEATH ANGUISH
“I was in Brookside when I was 12, I’ve grown up with it. You have to take the rough with the smooth.”
Ex lad mags model Jennifer – who runs a dance studio and drama school – took part in ITV reality show Sugar Free Farm in 2016 after years of addiction to fizzy drinks and sweets.
Her exercise regime has helped her lose 23 inches of body fat, her waist trimmed from 34cm to 30cm.
Now she’s aiming for her target weight of nine and a half stone, but is determined not to be obsessed.
“I have a break at the weekend,” she said. “I do go to the gym and train five times a week, but you can’t let it control you. It’s important to be normal. I’m one of these people who only has to look at a donut and it’s JODIE Kidd has told of her grief over her sister-in-law’s death from cancer.
The former supermodel was “shocked to the core” when brother Darcy told her his wife Sandy Whiting, 50, was terminally ill.
Just three months after her diagnosis, Sandy died of pancreatic cancer in a UK hospital.
Jodie, who now fronts a charities campaign highlighting rare cancer, said: “Sandy was healthy all her life – but a doctor sent her for tests and she was given the devastating news.”
Sandy, also an ex-model, saw her every day before emigrating to Australia with Darcy. “We were as close as real sisters, always in each other’s houses,” Jodie told the Sunday People.
“I hadn’t really heard of pancreatic cancer till it hit Sandy – and the fact it was terminal didn’t sink in right away. You hear so much about successful cancer treatments but there was nothing doctors could do for her.
“She flew back to Britain with Darcy and was taken to a London hospital. All the family came, including her grown-up kids, but she died there. It was so unbelievably quick.
“I visited Sandy all the time she was in hospital. That time I spent there with her was so special, even though it was difficult seeing her in the knowledge she was dying.”
Pancreatic cancer is one of the least survivable cancers, having often spread further through the body before detection.
Jodie, 38, who now owns a pub in Kirdford, West Sussex, posted remembrance photos of Sandy on Instagram, with a tribute saying: “I love and miss you, my beautiful sister-in-law.”