Lynette Bolton, wife of Jude Bolton AFL player, gives emotional breast cancer update

Lynette Boltonthe wife of the former high-profile AFL player Jude Bolton has shared a raw post about the emotional toll of her battle with breast cancer.

Bolton, 44, posted a powerful post on Instagram to talk about the moment she shaved her head while battling the highly aggressive triple negative breast cancer she was diagnosed last year.

The mother of two daughters, who has documented her battle with the disease, shared an update with her followers yesterday revealing her grief over losing her hair.

Watch the video above.

“I’ve only cried a handful of times during this whole cancer show,” she began the post.

‘I remember bawling my eyes out when I woke up in the recovery ward after getting my port [and] when I tried cold capping.

“The day I received chemotherapy and was sent home because my liver values ​​were not good. And the day I shaved my head.

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“For someone who has felt pretty ‘good’ through most of this… This one really hit me.

“Until then, I just got on with life while I was still ‘me’.

“But shaving my head made it feel real in a way that nothing else had. I looked in the mirror and just thought, ‘Yes, I have cancer.’ And I certainly don’t like that feeling.

“It’s not ‘just hair’. It’s everything else it represents. But… it is what it is.”

The post came just three days after she shared another photo with Jude, a Sydney Swans Hall of Famer who played 325 games for the club and helped them win two premierships before retiring in 2013.

“Choose your partner like your life depends on it… Because one day it might happen,” she wrote alongside a photo of the two sharing a kiss.

It’s just one of many updates she’s shared with her followers since announcing in December 2025 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer the month before.

“So yesterday, big day, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Bolton said in the video.

While the video was posted on December 20, it was filmed on December 4 and came 10 days after she first noticed she had a lump in her breast.

The next day, she shared another video telling fans that she had been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, a fast-growing and aggressive form of the disease, which required her to immediately begin chemotherapy.

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She complained in the video that the speed at which things unfolded meant she had no choice but to ruin Christmas by telling her friends and family, including her two daughters, Siarra, 14, and Piper, 11.

She has since shared the many highs and lows, including when she was sent home after a scheduled chemotherapy session because her liver could not cope with the treatment, and when she learned in March that genetic tests came back negative, which was a relief because it meant she had not passed on any of the known inherited genes that cause breast cancer to her two daughters.

Earlier this week, she shared a video in response to those who said: “But you don’t look like you have cancer.”

“I actually get this a lot. And most days I don’t feel like I have cancer (whatever that feels like). I get up, make lunch, answer messages, take a few steps… and mostly, from the outside, it looks like I’m getting on with life,” she wrote in the accompanying post.

“But other days I need fourteen pills to function and I can’t even leave the house. (Yes, true story).

“That’s the part you don’t always see. The back of the screens. And it’s such a strange place to sit. You feel normal one minute, but don’t know if you’re going up or down the next.

“Some days I have more in me. Some days I don’t. Right now I’m not trying to have it all together 100 percent of the time. Or even 50 percent. I just take it as it comes and do the best I can with what I have that day.

“And I’m incredibly grateful for the support I’ve felt along the way.”

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