Munoz-Newsome, like many others, says that she continuously put off the test because she felt uncomfortable about the procedure. “I was ashamed of taking off my trousers in a doctors surgery, which is ridiculous. I felt a sense of shame about having my vagina looked at,” she says.

A study by Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust shows that embarrassment about the body plays a huge part in the lack of attendance for between a third and half of women in the UK, which is something Munoz-Newsome really felt herself: “I was angry at myself for not having a smear test. I was angry with society for making me feel ashamed about my body”.

“It’s wrong that we feel that sense of shame about our own bodies. Women shouldn’t feel like that. Just go. Have a smear test, it’s a tiny bit uncomfortable. But it’s way more uncomfortable to have an operation”

Luckily, her diagnosis was early enough for doctors to catch it and remove the cancer from her body, she explains: “I had a radical trachelectomy. They take out your cervix and the top of the vagina.”

Cervical cancer: “I was angry at myself for not having a smear test”