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Mum goes viral after posting a video of her drawing on eyebrows

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Mum goes viral after posting a video of her drawing on eyebrows
Mum goes viral after posting a video of her drawing on eyebrows

A mother who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer has become an unlikely TikTok sensation - after a video of her drawing on eyebrows went viral.Jane Wagstaff, 53, was encouraged to join the new social media site by her son, 18-year-old Harvey, because 'old people don't go on it'.She decided to give it a go and filmed herself drawing on eyebrows as a joke, using the hook from a plastic coat hanger as her stencil.To Jane's surprise the video went viral with 1.5m views and over 30,000 comments - and now Jane posts daily videos to her growing audience.Jane, from Collumpton, Devon, said: "I'm quite a funny person, well I think I am - people laugh at me."During lockdown I was sitting with my youngest and he said I should give TikTok a go because old people don't go on it."I'm only 53, I wouldn't say I'm old, but I thought I would give it a go anyway."The eyebrow one I did a few weeks ago and it's had millions of views, I couldn't believe it."I saw someone else do it on TikTok and she only had a few hundred views and I thought I'd give it a go, but my version took off."I've got over 6,000 followers now - that's a lot for someone like me who isn't trying to sell something."Jane said that she uses laughter as therapy and that TikTok distracts her from her recent cancer diagnosis.It has been confirmed that the mother of three has breast cancer, which has spread to her lymph nodes, and other precancerous cells.Jane now faces a gruelling 36 weeks of treatment before an assessment and maybe an operation.She continued: "I've got 18 weeks of chemotherapy, then 18 weeks of hormone therapy.

I'll be in the oncology ward for 36 weeks."The laughter is therapy for me, but I didn't realise it was funny.

Behind that I'm a wreck, but TikTok is fun and a release - there're lots of people on there supporting me."I've had lots of support from my friends on Facebook, but on TikTok I get messages from breast cancer survivors that I've never met who are offering help. "It's amazing."

A mother who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer has become an unlikely TikTok sensation - after a video of her drawing on eyebrows went viral.Jane Wagstaff, 53, was encouraged to join the new social media site by her son, 18-year-old Harvey, because 'old people don't go on it'.She decided to give it a go and filmed herself drawing on eyebrows as a joke, using the hook from a plastic coat hanger as her stencil.To Jane's surprise the video went viral with 1.5m views and over 30,000 comments - and now Jane posts daily videos to her growing audience.Jane, from Collumpton, Devon, said: "I'm quite a funny person, well I think I am - people laugh at me."During lockdown I was sitting with my youngest and he said I should give TikTok a go because old people don't go on it."I'm only 53, I wouldn't say I'm old, but I thought I would give it a go anyway."The eyebrow one I did a few weeks ago and it's had millions of views, I couldn't believe it."I saw someone else do it on TikTok and she only had a few hundred views and I thought I'd give it a go, but my version took off."I've got over 6,000 followers now - that's a lot for someone like me who isn't trying to sell something."Jane said that she uses laughter as therapy and that TikTok distracts her from her recent cancer diagnosis.It has been confirmed that the mother of three has breast cancer, which has spread to her lymph nodes, and other precancerous cells.Jane now faces a gruelling 36 weeks of treatment before an assessment and maybe an operation.She continued: "I've got 18 weeks of chemotherapy, then 18 weeks of hormone therapy.

I'll be in the oncology ward for 36 weeks."The laughter is therapy for me, but I didn't realise it was funny.

Behind that I'm a wreck, but TikTok is fun and a release - there're lots of people on there supporting me."I've had lots of support from my friends on Facebook, but on TikTok I get messages from breast cancer survivors that I've never met who are offering help.

"It's amazing."

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