A few days after finding out that I probably had breast cancer, my dear friend said she was going to take me out for the evening to see the London Eye. Before heading there, she treated me to a slap up mean in a bistro pub. We were both having a lovely deep conversation about faith and God when I got up to go to the bathroom. As I left her and made my way upstairs, I couldn’t help but smile as I pondered on our words and on my new life-changing path in life. I smiled at a man who was coming down the stairs and he turned around the tapped me on the shoulder. He said he was a scouting agent and that he thought I would be perfect for a Burger King advert he was scouting for. He told me he had been looking for happy people and that I was the happiest person he had seen all day.

The Burger King advert was filmed a week before my first chemo session in December 2014, before my hair started to fall out. On the same day as my second chemo session on the 7th January 2015, I received a call from the film production company confirming that my best friend and I had made the cut and that the ad was live!

My hair had already began to heavily to fall out at that point from the second chemo. As I watched the advert, all I could see was how limp and dull my blonde hair was before I started to lose it and I was relieved. I realised that I had been going through a hair-life crisis long before all this happened! Perhaps I wasn’t destined to have long hair after all!

My friend and I appear at 5-6 seconds and at 11 seconds, I’m the girl who says “Are you joking?”. But alas, I wasn’t joking. My natural hair was really that bad!