Jade Goody’s Sons Prepare for Aussie Vacation
March 30, 2009 by lkatulka
The sons of the late British reality TV star Jade Goody are heading to Australia to escape the sadness of their mother’s funeral. 27-year-old Jade passed away a week ago after suffering from cervical cancer, and will be buried next weekend.
Five-year-old Bobby and four-year-old Freddie will leave on Monday with their father, television personality Jeff Brazier. They plan to visit the Gold Coast in Queensland and friends in Melbourne, Victoria.
”To say the boys are excited is the understatement of the year,” a source told The News of the World. ”They keep saying: ‘Daddy, when are we going, when can we see the kangaroos?’ Jeff knows how much they loved their mother but he feels they need to get right away from the media glare. You can’t get much further away than Australia.”
The vacation is in keeping with Jade’s wishes that the boys not attend the funeral. Instead she hoped they would “remember their mum as she was.”
The funeral will be held at a church near her home in Essex, south-east England, on April 4.
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Jade Goody Battles Cancer for Boys
August 28, 2008 by lkatulka
Most moms have needed to broach difficult topics with their kids, but few would have had to talk about the c word. Cancer. So spare a thought for British reality TV star Jade Goody. She was recently diagnosed with second-stage cervical cancer, but has not found the courage to tell her sons Bobby Jack, five, and three-year-old Freddie.
She’s told them “Mummy has a tummy ache,” and is quietly battling the cancer on her own. She told The Sun this is hardest because she has “to be realistic and face the possibility that I might not live to see them grow up.”
One thing she’s not going to do is give up.
“I am going to fight the damn thing every step of the way because I have two beautiful boys who are my world.”
I wish her the very best of luck at this challenging time.