A teen influencer battling terminal cancer has revealed she is pregnant.
Isabel Veloso, 18, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2021 when she was just 15 years old.
She has a 17cm tumour between her lungs and her heart and has been given just months to live.
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But Isabel, who has 3.2m Instagram followers, has made a staggering announcement, as reported by What’s The Jam.
She has posted a picture revealing that she is expecting a baby with her husband Lucas Borbas, who she married in April this year.
They shared the news on 11 August, which is Father’s Day in their native Brazil.
Isabel shared a photo of her and Lucas in a wheat field with a picture frame in the foreground.
The picture shows a mock front page article with the caption: “Breaking news. Baby’s coming.”
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Isabel underwent chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant and was given the all clear in November 2023.
Tragically, the cancer returned in a more aggressive form just three months later.
In January this year, Isabel was told that her condition was terminal and she only has months to live.
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Doctors initially told her it would be between four and six months, but have since shortened their estimate after new tests.
In her pregnancy announcement, Isabel also quoted Psalm 139:16 from The Bible: “Your eyes saw my unformed body.
“All the days ordained for me were written in your book.
“Before one of them came to be.”
She added: “Love you.”
Her post went viral with 700,000 likes and 44,000 comments.
One fan said: “My mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and we opted for palliative treatment. From the first day of symptoms to the day of her death, it was exactly 3 months and 5 days.”
Sandra wrote: “My daughter was cured of cancer when she got pregnant. The doctors said that the amount of hormones produced in her body made it better.”
Roberta commented: “I had breast cancer at 27 and then I had a tumour and lost an ovary and a fallopian tube. After hearing countless times that I couldn’t have children, at 32 I had my daughter Helena.”
However, Athena called Isabel “selfish” for falling pregnant with apparently just a few months to live.
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