Cooper-Key, a ceramicist and former Vivienne Westwood accessory designer, claimed that her funeral had been planned “thousands of times” by her family.

The mother of two was informed later that year that there was a tumor on her left side of the brain that was incurable. She hoped that immunotherapy would help her. When west Londoner Pandora was originally diagnosed with Paget’s Disease, a rare form of kidney cancer, she was 26 years old. She overcame the sickness and, roughly ten years later, gave birth to her first child.

Remarkably, a few weeks after giving baby, the physicians informed her that they had discovered a sarcoma in her left eye. Sarcomas are extremely rare and aggressive tumors, with just a few thousand being diagnosed annually in the UK.Cooper-Key was given only 10 months to live when her tear duct was removed, but she persisted for years.

Before another was discovered behind her nose, one was discovered in her cheek and effectively extracted. She also experienced severe seizures, often leaving her unconscious for many days. Cooper-Key required Botox to paralyze the other half of her face because she was left without muscles in half of it despite undergoing eight surgery to remove malignancies and subsequent cosmetic procedures. “I’m the only girl in town who gets it free,” she joked in a 2021 interview with The Times.