Influencer Lorna Luxe reveals she'll be a widow in her 40s following husband John's terminal cancer diagnosis, admits to racking up £300k debt to start brand and opens up on decision to not have children

Influencer Lorna Luxe has spoken about the sad realisation that she will become a widow at some point in her 40s following her loving husband John's terminal cancer diagnosis. 

The businesswoman, 43, has given an interview in which she admits the couple racked up £300k worth of debt to start up their now very lucrative brand and has also opened up about the couple's decision to not have children together. 

Husband John Andrews, who is 21 years Lorna's senior, is battling stage four adrenal cancer after being diagnosed in April 2023 - and has remained positive and upbeat despite the health battles he has endured since.

Earlier this month, Lorna revealed to her 1.6 million followers that former banker John's cancer had spread and treatment was 'no longer an option'.

The couple have kept followers updated throughout his treatment and were there for her when he went into remission in November 2023.

But in a tragic turn of events, his cancer returned in May 2024 and has spread to his brain.

Before Christmas, John was rushed back to hospital with organ failure, following a complication with his chemotherapy and fell ill with sepsis, but he has proven to be something of a fighter.

Lorna was told to 'prepare for the worst', but she knew he would recover and a determined John was home in time for Christmas. 

She told Fabulous magazine: 'It's been quite scary because we don't know how long we've got... We don't know how long John is going to feel up for doing things so we're running at a million miles an hour at the minute. We know we’re on a timeline.'

Lorna and John have been treating themselves to nice experiences to make the most of the time they have together, taking each day as it comes. 

'I don't make long term plans,' she says. 'Fundamentally, I’m probably going to be a widow at some point in my 40s and that’s a bit of a scary place to be for any woman.'

Following John's last stint in hospital, he has told Lorna they need to get their 'ducks in a row' financially, in case he's not here, but she said, 'we certainly aren’t discussing funerals or anything like that, though. We are just not in that space'.

Lorna and John were so convinced she would make it as an influencer back in 2014, they got into £300k of debt buying designer clothes and travelling - significantly more than the £50k she estimated she had racked up when discussing it on a recent podcast. 

Lorna, who lives with John in the famous £2.5million Ghost House in Warwickshire, can now command up to £80k for one brand deal, but she knows she could struggle if it all went wrong tomorrow.

Joking that she's 'basically skint,' Lorna has plugged her £600k profits from her successful L.A. Space brand back into the business and plans to branch out into the beauty market in the next 12 months.

Lorna and John are child-free by choice, but admits she did try for a baby in her 20s, but nothing happened.

She's incredibly honest about her stuggles with anorexia and bulimia - which she battled in her 30s and from age 35 onwards, she been focused on her career, admitting she would have struggled to do both. 

She admits: 'I did think recently: "What if?" – and people did say to me: "You can still do it." But it’s less about what I can do or I want, and more how that would that fit into my life.. I’m going through so much with John that it would feel like a selfish move to have a baby, because I do think I’d struggle, especially if I didn’t have John around.'