Mum-to-be diagnosed with cancer while making a film about the disease
direct to your inboxWhen Jennifer Knowles starting working on her 'labour of love' film about the bond of friendship between teenage cancer patients she never imagined that she would end up telling her own story as a survivor of the disease.Jennifer started writing Running Naked, which tells the story of Ben and Mark who become inseparable while undergoing treatment, 15 years ago with her BAFTA-nominated husband Michael.Then while she was pregnant with their daughter Frankie she received devastating news that she was facing her own real-life battle with cancer.Jennifer, 48, started bleeding heavily at 33 weeks of pregnancy.Two weeks later she was diagnosed with the very rare pregnancy-related cancer choriocarcinoma, a fast growing cancer