Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Bianca Balti, 40, looks chic in a black leather coat as she attends Vanity Fair event in Italy amid cancer battle

Bianca Balti looked chic in a black leather coat as she attended a Vanity Fair event during Sanremo music festival 2025 in Italy on Monday, amid her cancer battle. The Italian model, 40, enjoyed a night of fun at Rêve Bistrot as she continues to fight the devastating disease. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star teamed her stylish look with black court heels and chunky gold earrings. Bianca completed her chemotherapy journey on January 27 but admitted it 'isn't quite over yet'.

She shared a health update in a touching Instagram post to mark World Cancer Day on February 4. She wrote: 'February 4th. World Cancer Day. It has always been just a random day that some posts on Instagram reminded me of. Bianca Balti, 40, looked chic in a black leather coat as she attended a Vanity Fair event during Sanremo music festival 2025 in Italy on Monday, amid her cancer battle. The Italian model enjoyed a night of fun as she continues to fight the devastating disease.

'Although my aunt died of metastatic breast cancer at age 39 and my mom got myeloma a couple of years ago. 'And despite my own diagnosis, back in 2021, of carrying the BRCA1 gene for which, in December 2022, I underwent a preventative double mastectomy. 'Cancer couldn’t inhabit my thoughts, let alone my body. 'Until September 8th of 2024, the day that Cancer, Ovarian to be specific, came into my life feeling a whole lot like a death sentence.

'On October 14th, I started my chemotherapy journey that just ended last Monday, January 27th, but to my great surprise, those last few months, I felt as alive as ever. 'I was not taking my life for granted anymore, and my gratitude hit an all-time peak. Everything started to taste like a real blessing. 'It has been hard, and it isn’t quite over yet, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. 'They say, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” but my experience is that what didn’t kill me made me love life a lot more.'.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star teamed her stylish look with black court heels and chunky gold earrings. Bianca looked radiant and glowing in her stylish look. Bianca completed her chemotherapy journey on January 27 but admitted it 'isn't quite over yet'. In September 2024, Bianca revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer after checking herself into the hospital over excruciating 'abdominal pain.'.

The beauty announced her devastating diagnosis in an Instagram post on September 15, in which she admitted it had been a week 'full of fear, pain and tears.'. The mother-of-two - who was Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's Rookie of the Year in 2017 - revealed that upon checking into the emergency room she discovered she had stage 3C ovarian cancer, which meant that the disease had spread to the outside of the pelvis.

Still smiling in a hospital gown, the model insisted that she was remaining positive and was sure she was going to 'beat' cancer. She explained that her diagnosis, which has a five-year survival rate of 39 per cent, had helped her find the 'beauty through life's hurdles.'. According to Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, stage 3C ovarian cancer means that the disease is present in one or both fallopian tubes and has spread to the organs outside of the pelvic region.

It may have also spread to the lymph nodes, liver or spleen. Treatment for this aggressive form of cancer includes surgery and chemotherapy. She shared a health update in a touching Instagram post to mark World Cancer Day on February 4. In September 2024, Bianca revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer after checking herself into the hospital over excruciating 'abdominal pain'. The mother-of-two (seen in 2023) revealed that upon checking into the emergency room she discovered she had stage 3C ovarian cancer.

The beauty announced her devastating diagnosis in an Instagram post on September 15, in which she admitted it had been a week 'full of fear, pain and tears'. In 2022, Bianca underwent genetic evaluation following a series of medical woes and discovered that she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene, which is found in those with breast or ovarian cancer. Along with the discovery of being a carrier, Bianca learned that she had a 50 per cent chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer and a 30 per cent chance of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

By December 2022, she underwent a preventative double mastectomy. At the time, she told Vogue: 'I wasn't sick, yet — but I knew the chances were much higher that I would be one day. And I now had the free will to do something about it. 'The hardest part of this entire process has been the fear. Of finding out the diagnosis, the unknown, of taking time off work, of not knowing how my body will look.'.