The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Underwear stunt to help start life-saving conversations
Award-winning blogger and author Fi Munro has agreed to take part in a revealing stunt to raise awareness of ovarian cancer.
The inspirational Perthshire woman will be joined by a group of friends on the streets of Glasgow, wearing only teal-coloured lingerie and handing out 3,000 white roses.
The event, outside Argyle Street Station on Wednesday, will mark World Ovarian Cancer Day (WOCD) and aims to encourage women to talk about their bodies without shame.
Teal is the colour that symbolises ovarian cancer and the group has been inspired by a similar stunt by Canadian model Elly Mayday, 30, who died in March.
Fi was diagnosed with stage 4b ovarian cancer in January 2016, when she was aged just 30.
She went on to write a book called How Long Have I Got? and has worked hard to raise awareness and funds to support other people dealing with cancer.
She said: “I want to help women to recognise the symptoms of ovarian cancer, have an opportunity to talk about their bodies and raise awareness in an engaging and original way.
“I think this will be eye-catching and bold and get people talking.”
The number of women being diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer is increasing.
Specialists say two of the main barriers to early diagnosis are not being aware of the symptoms and being too embarrassed to talk about their bodies with their GPs.
Fi said: “We hope to help break down both of these barriers by firstly talking about and raising awareness of the symptoms, and secondly by doing so in our underwear so that we can demonstrate that all our bodies are different, unique and wonderful and not something to be ashamed of.
“I really want to help save the lives of other women.”
Ovarian cancer is one of the five gynaecological cancers, along with cervical, womb, vaginal and vulval.
The Eve Appeal, the only UK charity raising awareness and funding research in all five cancers, is also running a campaign to encourage more open and anatomically correct conversations between women and health practitioners.