Lauren Mahon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 when she was just 31 years old. It won’t surprise you that this was a devastating moment in her life, but the reaction she had to it just might.

Over the next four years she, while fighting to get better, created an online community where younger women struggling with cancer could support each other; designed a range of T-shirts to raise money for cancer charities; wrote about her experiences candidly and hilariously on her Girl vs Cancer blog, and became co-host of BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C. And let’s not forget that Stylist Remarkable Women award.

She also drummed up thousands of followers on her journey. These followers, us included, have watched on in awe, delight and adoration as she’s defied the stereotype of what a cancer diagnosis makes us think of and provided an invaluable resource for those continuing to be diagnosed today.

Lauren Mahon aka Girl vs Cancer to make TV series about surviving breast cancer