‘Shopaholic’ author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain cancer diagnosis [Video]

The author of the “Shopaholic” book series that was turned into a movie is battling glioblastoma, a cancerous and aggressive brain tumor.

Sophie Kinsella, 54, shared in a message on social media that she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022 but took time to share the diagnosis publicly.

“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,'” Kinsella wrote Wednesday.

Kinsella, whose birth name is Madeleine Wickham, added that she is currently undergoing chemotherapy after already completing radiation and surgery at University College Hospital in London.

“At the moment all is stable and I am feeling generally very well, though I get very tired and my memory is even worse than it was before!,” she wrote. “I am so grateful to my family and close friends who have been an incredible support to me, and to the wonderful …