LAST YEAR’S CROP ARE STILL GOING STRONG TOO!
The sporting great is staying strong for his girlfriend Stojanka as she battles breast cancer GRANT KENNY’S HEARTBREAK
DAVID & EMILY
Queensland couple David Mcmahon and Emma Gordon celebrated their engagement party last month after announcing in October they’re getting hitched! “Thank you to all our family who made today so special,” Emily, 27, wrote on social media with the hashtag #appleyeverafter
– a nod to her apple farmer fiance. “Let’s get married.” “It’s everything I wished for when I went into the experience, and it’s incredible,” says David, 30.
BRAD & CLARE
After moving in together on Brad’s Cootamundra, NSW, farm shortly after the finale, the couple welcomed their first child, son Roy, in December. “We never would have met, let alone started a family if we didn’t go on the Farmer Wants A Wife journey,” the proud 34-yearold dad previously said. And it sounds like a wedding could be next! “She keeps putting the pressure on to propose,” Brad says of 38-year-old Clare.
ANDREW & CLAIRE
They were so certain they’d found love that 41-year-old mixed crop and sheep farmer Andrew sent the other ladies packing and left the series early with Claire. Then, after moving in together, the Narromine, NSW, couple announced their engagement in March. “I said YES to the love of my life,” the 38-yearold bride-to-be shared on social media. “So absolutely grateful that I wake up to this life everyday. You are my best friend.”
She’s being hailed by her supporters, including close friends Jasmine Stefanovic and Sylvia Je reys, as one of the strongest and most resilient women they know. And there’s no doubt that ironman legend Grant Kenny is just as in awe of the bravery of his longtime girlfriend Stojanka Bulic – or “Stoj” as she’s a ectionately known – as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer.
e courageous Sunshine Coast local has bravely opened up about her diagnosis in a series of candid Tiktoks, revealing her shock diagnosis, and the aggressive life-saving treatments she is undergoing.
Holding back tears, the 46-year-old makeup artist, who regularly travels the world working for top fashion houses like Versace and Dior, was visibly shaken as she shared the news with her followers.
“Some Stoj news. ank you to all my doctors, partner, family and friends for all the support,” she posted, before detailing exactly what she’s been through these past few months.
FAMILY TRAGEDY
“In January I found out that I had breast cancer, so that was a bit horrible,” she shared.
“I’ve just been dealing with that and having the lump removed. Everything’s okay… [the] cancer has been removed.
“But there’s just a lot of information that I had to take in, and I’m going to be doing chemotherapy and radiation, and I thought that I’d do this [video message] before all my hair falls out, which is already starting to happen.”
As tributes continue to ow in for the popular fashion industry icon, it’s been her own tragic backstory that has touched hearts across the world.
“My mother passed away from breast cancer 22 years ago, so I was petri ed of the same outcome,” she explained.
“But breast cancer treatment has advanced so much in this time – I didn’t realise how much I didn’t know.”
Diagnosed with a form of breast cancer known as invasive lobular carcinoma, she has reportedly undergone a lumpectomy – telling her many supporters who may face the same procedure that “it’s very scary, but you will be ne”.
Determined to raise more awareness around breast cancer, especially among
women as young as 25, Stoj is now calling for screening to be available to everyone, regardless of age.
Despite putting on a brave face, she couldn’t hide just how devastated she was when her hair began to fall out due to the chemo, even sharing her rst haircut.
“You think that it’s a vain issue but it’s not,” she said. “e last three days I’ve been balling my eyes out uncontrollably because I look in the mirror and can’t recognise myself – I was prepared for a mastectomy, a lumpectomy, the scars
– no problem... why is it my hair is making me so emotional? I can’t stop crying.”
And while Stoj continues to ght her battle, Grant will be by her side through the next few crucial months while she recovers.
“He adores her, and he will do whatever it takes to get her through this. ey’ll turn this into something positive, especially if it helps other survivors – that’s just how they roll,” a close friend tells Woman’s Day.
‘I look in the mirror and can’t recognise myself’