Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'It hit us like a sledgehammer - when she saw me and told me, I just screamed'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman who had repeatedly visited her GP after living in constant pain over the course of six years was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
Jess Woods first complained of abdominal pain, bladder and bowel problem back in 2017. The pain was so bad, she ended up in A&E on multiple occasions.
Doctors suspected the 28-year-old was suffering from gallstones, while her mum Paula, believed she could be suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
But it was only when she went under the knife for a complete gall bladder removal at Royal Liverpool Hospital in February that surgeons discovered the true cause of her constant pain: grade 3 ovarian cancer, reports the ECHO. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Paula, 52, said she 'screamed' when she learned of her daughter's diagnosis.
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