Breast Cancer Warden

Kylie Minogue has been everyone’s sweetheart since the start. Her claim to fame in Australia was the sitcom Neighbours. Her music career got the boost with the popular and very catchy music video “Locomotion” which, following which Kylie skyrocketed in the music world, did some movie roles and was one of ’sweetheart-celebs’ throughout the late 80s and 90s.

While in Melbourne on her ambitious greatest hits tour Showgirl she was diagonised with breast cancer. The tour was cancelled but the fans were extremely supportive of her.

She received immense media attention and popular support, including from the then prime minister of Australia, John Howard. Media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks had to warn the media and fans against disrupting the Minogue family’s privacy rights.

Minogue underwent surgery on 21 May 2005 at the private Catholic Cabrini Hospital in Malvern followed by intense chemotherepy in France.

The Showgirl tour resumed on November 11, 2006; she is said to have said she was “fashionably late” by 18 months

Her children’s book, The Showgirl Princess, written during her period of convalescence, was published in October 2006, and her perfume, “Darling”, was launched in November. On her return to Australia for her concert tour, she likened her cancer battle and chemotherapy to experiencing a nuclear bomb, and said that she is determined to resume her career. She is said to have collaborated with Boy George on a song called “Ready” and had been working on a new album, scheduled for release in late 2007.

We wish Miss Minogue a wonderful life ahead.

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