It’s easy to dismiss ovarian and other female-specific cancers as something to worry about when we’re older. But there’s been a sharp increase in the incidence of ovarian cancer in women in their early 30s, and over half of the 7,000 UK cases diagnosed a year occur in women under 65.

And that’s why 16-year-old Peyton Linafelter is sharing her story with the world.

The model was just 15 when she began experiencing a series of unusual symptoms, just days after being scouted by Kate Upton’s agency.

“I couldn’t keep anything down,” she told Fox News. “My stomach was a little expanded and I just thought I was eating a lot of carbs. But, each week, my stomach got bigger and bigger.

“By the time it was April, I looked like I was five months pregnant. My lower back hurt a lot and my abdomen was in pain.”

Linafelter visited her doctors and told them about her symptoms, and they began running a series of tests. On her 16^th birthday, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer.

How this teenager’s ovarian cancer diagnosis is inspiring women everywhere