‘My least favourite date on the calendar’: The Bachelorette’s Georgia Love reveals how she is honouring her mum Belinda who she lost to cancer as Mother’s Day approaches
Georgia Love lost her mother Belinda to pancreatic cancer just hours after confessing her love to Lee Elliot on The Bachelorette in 2016.
And every year, Mother’s Day is a difficult holiday for the 31-year-old to cope with in her mum’s absence.
On Sunday, the former reality star explained how it’s her ‘least favourite’ day in a moving Instagram post.
Hurting: On Sunday, Georgia Love (pictured) revealed in an Instagram post she has made a candle to raise money for charity to honour her late mother. The former Bachelorette star also said that Mother’s Day is her least favourite day of the year
Alongside a photo in which she is beaming for the camera, Georgia wrote: ‘One week until Mothers’ Day, my least favourite day on the calendar.
‘But this year, instead of hiding under the bedsheets and pretending it’s not happening, I’m remembering my Mum.’
Georgia explained she will be honouring her late mother by raising funds for Pancare Foundation.
Tragic: Georgia Love lost her mother Belinda to pancreatic cancer just hours after confessing her love to Lee Elliot on The Bachelorette in 2016
Georgia wrote: ‘One week until Mothers’ Day, my least favourite day on the calendar. But this year, instead of hiding under the bedsheets and pretending it’s not happening, I’m remembering my Mum’
The former journalist teamed up with Damselfly to design a candle in two colours, with one hundred percent of the profits from the sale going to charity.
‘Profits from the sale of this beautiful candle (designed by Yours Truly) will go towards research and help support those battling pancreatic and upper GI cancers,’ Georgia told her fans.
Belinda Love died from pancreatic cancer in October 2016, a month after her 60th birthday, and just one day after The Bachelorette finale had aired.
Georgia said that she and her fiancé, Lee Elliott, had decided to cancel most of their media commitments the day after the finale so they could spend the day with her mother, not realising it would be her last day.
Thoughtful: The former journalist teamed up with Damselfly to design a candle in two colours, with one hundred percent of the profits from the sale going to charity. Pictured with her mother and grandmother
Awful: A distraught Georgia told the Lemonade podcast last year that losing her mother felt incredibly ‘unfair’
A distraught Georgia told the Lemonade podcast last year that the whole situation felt incredibly ‘unfair’.
She added that ‘nothing felt real’ during that period in her life, including the death of her mother, due to the experience of filming The Bachelorette.
‘While I was devastated at the time, I feel like the reality and the grief of it didn’t hit for another few months, when all of a sudden it was like, “Oh, she hasn’t come back,”‘ she said.
Georgia added: ‘I don’t know when this pain will end, because the thing that is painful won’t end, because mum isn’t coming back.’
Engaged: Bachelorette winner Lee Elliot (pictured) proposed to Georgia in September 2019 with a stunning diamond ring at the Hawkesbury River in NSW