Mel Schilling has shared a very hopeful update on her cancer battle.
The Married At First Sight relationship expert posted to Instagram this weekend to reveal she is celebrating completing her last round of chemotherapy.
The 52-year-old posed up a storm with husband Gareth Brisbane, absolutely beaming for the camera.
The smiling pair went out to a well deserved lunch date to mark the milestone.
‘Date lunch with the big guy to celebrate my impending FINAL round of chemo,’ Mel wrote in the caption.
‘Lovely day on the river, beautiful food, a sip of wine and optimism all round’.
Mel was less optimistic in May when going through chemotherapy and admitted it had gotten difficult to cope with the side effects.
The therapist announced she had been diagnosed with the disease in December and has subsequently undergone surgery and chemo.
‘It’s getting tough now,’ she admitted to The Mirror at the time.
‘I’m about halfway through and it’s getting hard. Feeling fatigued and nauseous is a bigger part of my everyday life.
‘It feels like I’m hungover or pregnant every day, which is not fun,’ she continued.
Mel added she’s been undergoing treatment during her move to the UK with her husband Gareth.
‘I don’t do things by halves. It’s been a tricky time as I’ve been adjusting to going through that and moving house,’ she said.
Mel, who is an ambassador for the colorectal charity Occtopus, recently spoke to UK’s Magic FM about her health.
‘I’m feeling a little flat today actually, to be totally honest with you,’ she said.
Mel added that she is now on her third cycle of chemotherapy.
‘It sort of feels like being hungover, like I’ve been drinking all night.’
Despite this, the media personality expressed her determination to keep working and has no intention of slowing down.
‘I’m just now trying to find the way to juggle everything, because I’m not stopping working. This thing is not beating me, I’m here to fight, I just need to make some adaptions,’ she continued.
It comes after Mel told of the agony she was left in before her cancer diagnosis.
Speaking to New! magazine, Mel recalled the severe pain she was in while at work, saying: ‘I was doubled over and shouting – the pain was so intense.’
Her doctors originally thought her symptoms were simply constipation but she soon became concerned after losing her appetite.
On a trip to Ireland with her husband Mel said she was in ‘so much pain’ and struggled to hold down food or water.
Knowing something was still wrong, she went to see a gastroenterologist after returning to London who was ‘concerned’ about her unexplained weight loss.
Mel had a CT scan and returned a few days later to get her results, recalling the heart-breaking moment she was told she had cancer.
She said: ‘We were sitting in his office and the doctor had a blank look and I thought, ‘This doesn’t seem right,’ and he said, “It’s cancer.” I think I was numb, I didn’t process it and I went into work mode, that’s all I could focus on.’
The reality TV host revealed her shock health battle in December and underwent colon surgery just before the end of the year.
She explained that her tumour – which she has named ‘Terry’ – was removed by UK doctors.
However, as the cancer spread through her colon into the muscle, Mel discovered she needed chemotherapy and began treatment at the end of February.