Jade Goody dies

I am personally in shock after hearing the news that Jade Goody lost her battle with cancer this morning. The star was pronounced dead at her home in Upshire, Essex at 03.14am, in the early hours of Sunday March 22nd. Mothers Day.

Jade, aged only 27, had been fighting a vicious case of cervical cancer, of which has been hugely publicised in the media over the past few weeks.

Jade wanted to sell her story to raise as much money for her sons Bobby, 4, and Freddie 5, for after she left them. She also wanted to raise awareness to the public about how important it is to have cancer checks, especially women having checks for cervical cancer.

Jade married partner Jack Tweed on 21 February at Down Hall Country House Hotel in Essex. OK! magazine paid Jade £700,000 to cover the event. An amount which Jade later said would be passed on to her sons.

I think Jade had remarkable courage, putting her situation out thier, for all the public to see, just so she could be sure her sons would have a good childhood, a better one than she had.

People who haven't been through the experience can only image what she must have been going through. Until the end, Jade's documentry series following her life was still filmed. He wedding to Jack was filmed as a special.

Throughout the last few weeks of her life Jade had been remarkably brave. She will remain an insperation to us all, as we look back on how although she knew she could die any day, her main aim was to make sure she provided for her children before she did so.

Our thoughts should now go out to Jade's sons, who lost their mum on Mothers Day. It's heartbreaking to think they'd have bought her a card and presents, to celebrate how special thier mummy is to them. But insted would have woken up to the terrible news she's now in heaven with the angels.