@mollyfenton.bsky.social
22 y/o Welsh girl with an inoperable brain tumour. TEDx speaker, women’s health advocate, finding my way through illness in my 20s and shouting about it.
A podcast recommendation - #TheGlioBabes
"In this episode we discuss our trip with #TheBrainTumourCharity to #Parliament..."
⭐ Molly Fenton & Mel Kelly Young Ambassadors @braintumourcharity.bsky.social + guests Jessica Asato & Tom Rutland MPs
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#BTAM2025
"Health activist" Molly Fenton discusses the issues of emotional wellbeing: "you're not alone". #emotionalhealth #daringtodream #makingspacestotalk
#Lleswyl2025 www.youtube.com/live/Rfu2zrH...
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@radioglamorgan.bsky.social
6. So if you have young people in your life PLEASE be aware.
It’s easy for us to look back and think it wasn’t everything but to them it really can be.
And with the state of the world and the mental health crisis, you need to be aware.
End 🧵❤️
5. It put me in a really bad place but I wish someone had shown me it wasn’t the end of the world.
It didn’t mean my life was over.
It didn’t mean that I’d be better off dead.
It worries me that this will be happening to other pupils right now.
4. I knew I wouldn’t make the first 5 as I had failed AS levels. But the second I thought I had a chance.
There was NO wellbeing support.
EVERYONE was disappointed in me and made it known.
I thought the world was over because school is everything and the pressure is insomantable.
3. 5 GCSEs. No AS levels bcos they were predicted (COVID). I’d been kicked out of sixth form and moved back to my old school late in the year, so didn’t have enough to get any grades.
However Alevels I got 2A*s 2As. In year 13 I finally started getting my life back.
2. My attendance remained low. Taken out of mainstream education. I cried all day to be honest. It wasn’t understood. I did my work in a corner as I cried.
After all I was 16 and just been handed what I thought was a death sentence. I needed help.
1. I was 16 when I was told I had a brain tumour.
On the same day as my GCSE maths exam. I had to go back to school to sit the exam straight after.I failed the rest of my GCSEs and had to resit year 11 as no longer attended school.
I was an A* student & head girl until that day.
3 years ago today I did my final visit to universities.
3 years tomorrow I received 5 rejections. I was up to 10 rejections in total after I’d finally retried in effort to regain my life since my brain tumour diagnosis.
I don’t know how I survived that period.
A thread⬇️🧵
Super excited to join the Twilight Walk in London on the 22nd March with @braintumourcharity.bsky.social.
I’m in the process of organising a Cardiff one. Keep Saturday 29th March pencilled in. I’ll be back with more info❤️
Molly presenting on stage at the Senedd Welsh Parliament
Making the move…
Hi I’m Molly. 22. Welsh Women’s health advocate, through destigmatising difficult conversations around women’s bodies.
“Embarrassing” hormonal symptoms prompted my own brain tumour diagnosis.
I’ll talk a lot about life with illness being 22 and my campaigning.
Great to connect ❤️
