Cheyann Shaw, a bodybuilder turned fitness guru with 224,000 followers on Instagram, died on January 4, 2021. She was 28.
The tragic news was announced via her Instagram page on Monday. Shaw’s cause of death stemmed from her five year battle with ovarian cancer. Her family wrote, “With heavy hearts, we are sad to announce that our beautiful girl Cheyann has been called home to heaven.”
Her mother, Darci Clark is quoted saying, “My heart is breaking today, our baby girl lost her long battle with ovarian cancer. She fought until the bitter end. She is a true warrior and survivor. She will be truly missed and will forever be in my heart.”
“Thank you all for your support and encouragement over the years,” the post continued. “If there’s one thing Cheyann taught us is that no matter what battles we face, we can always find a reason to smile through them.”
Three weeks before her wedding day to husband Kaleb in August 2016, Shaw first learned of her cancer diagnosis. She was 23-years-old when she was diagnosed with 4 low-grade serous ovarian cancer by accident – an accident she said “saved my life.”
Shaw was incredibly open about sharing her cancer journey on social media with the goal of spreading knowledge about this “silent killer” that is ovarian cancer, a rare and slow-growing strain that can be resistant to chemotherapy.
Reflecting on her diagnosis in December 2019, she wrote on Instagram:
Ovarian cancer is known as the silent killer and is the deadliest gynecological cancer. Most women are diagnosed at advantage stages because there is NO DETECTION TEST for OVCA and a Pap smear WILL not detect OVCA. A biopsy is the ONLY way to determine, 100%, that it is ovarian cancer. I had every symptom of OVCA but I didn’t know OVCA was even a thing.
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