Bachelorette Georgia Love honours mum in charity walk
Life after filming The Bachelorette has been busy for Georgia Love. The 30-year-old is loved up, back to news reporting and has taken a stand to spread awareness of pancreatic cancer, which claimed her mother’s life two and a half years ago.
Georgia Love’s world came tumbling down when she lost her mother to pancreatic cancer just hours after The Bachelorette’s 2016 finale aired on national television.
Two and a half years on, the 30-year-old is rebranding her short-lived rise to stardom for the greater good, trading roses to support others affected by the disease as a Pancare Foundation ambassador.
Next Sunday, Love will put her best foot forward at the organisation’s first Sydney-based Walk For Hope event, where she will stride 5km alongside her sister Katie in memory of their mother, Belinda, and others alike.
“I still catch myself calling or messaging her,” Love said.
“It’s really hard to come to terms with — watching (mum) go through all of that and how quickly she went downhill.
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“That’s why I got involved with the Pancare Foundation … to talk about pancreatic cancer and do what I can to fundraise for research. There’s so much unknown about it.”
Since wrapping up the second season of The Bachelorette, Melbourne-based Love is back to news reporting, still with beau Lee Elliot and has made it her mission to spread awareness of the disease.
According to the Pancare Foundation, pancreatic cancer is the tenth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and the fifth most common cause of death from cancer.
The five-year survival rate sits at just 9.8 per cent — a figure which has not significantly changed in 40 years.
The disease has claimed the lives of a number of high-profile individuals in recent years, including Steve Jobs, Alan Rickman, Aretha Franklin and Patrick Swayze.
“I think the most important thing for sufferers and their loved ones is hope,” Love said.
“The survival rate is low but people are still surviving.
“We never treated mum as if she was dying — even though she did in the end — and going through it with a smile, love and positivity really made her last few months much happier.”
The funds raised from the May 26 event at the Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, will go towards funding new treatments for pancreatic cancer, patient support and the Pancare Foundation’s early detection program.
To join Love on her mission, hit the ground running — or walking — at the event from 9am on Sunday, with registrations open from 7am.
Entry for adults is $50, children between six and 17 years is $20 and juniors under the age of five are free.
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