Shopaholic Author Sophie Kinsella, 54, Diagnosed with Brain Cancer [Video]

Author Sophie Kinsella revealed she was diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer.

Born Madeleine Wickham, the Shopaholic series writer, 54, announced on Instagram on April 17 that she has glioblastoma, a rare form of terminal cancer that kills more than 10,000 Americans a year, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. It is the same type of cancer that killed Sen. John McCain in August 2018.

“At the end of 2022 I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer,” Kinsella wrote alongside a photo of herself. “I did not share this before because I wanted to make sure that my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our ‘new normal.’”

“I have been under the care of the excellent team at University College Hospital in London and have had successful surgery and subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is still ongoing,” she explained. “At the moment all is stable and …